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Bonnard had met the high-heeled, diminutive model for many of these paintings of nudes around 1893.
Critics declare Bonnard's landscapes, nudes, and self-portraits more than dated Impressionism, deeming them "[s]ome of the most extraordinary paintings of his quickly ending century" (Christopher Benfey, Slate ). They say that his dreamlike images show a "Proustian" concern with the mechanics of perception and that his later nudes are "tinged with necrophilia" (Francine Prose, the Wall Street Journal ). (MoMA's site serves up a slew of paintings.)
His signature pictures--of adolescent girls exhibiting their genitalia--"contain most of this show's electricity" (John Updike, the New York Review of Books ). Several critics observe that Schiele can only do nudes.
Whipped into a frenzy, citizens formed the National Vigilance Association, but rather than protecting impoverished virgins the vigilantes conducted a crusade against prostitutes, homosexuals, music halls, theaters, paintings of nudes, and French novels (which they burned).
A firestorm of feminist controversy already surrounds some of these works--one side contends that these are refreshingly de-idealized nudes, the other side responds that the unusual poses and aggressive use of pastel are further degradations of women--but you wouldn't know it from the placid audio tour, or from the printed "exhibition guide" that replaces the usual wall panels.
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