with “Pionnières”, the Luxembourg Museum pays tribute to the artists of Paris during the Roaring Twenties
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Until July 10, the exhibition “Pioneers, Artists in the Paris of the Roaring Twenties”, at the Luxembourg Museum, highlights women artists and avant-garde creators.
At the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris, the exhibition g, honors pioneers: those who painted women on wheels in Bugattis, or dominating Amazons. In Paris, in the 1920s, women artists dreamed of equality with men. They smoke and wear top hats. During the First World War, they replaced the men in the rear. After the war, avant-garde women artists wanted to maintain parity.
During the Roaring Twenties, women changed their look, swapping suffocating corsets for short hair and not wearing bras. As early as 1920, Coco Chanel made the Parisienne a trendy boy, showing off her legs. The woman reveals her muscular and tanned body, “Because for the first time [elles] sports police”, or sunbathe on the beach, notes Lucia Pesapane, art historian. Singer Josephine Baker has higher fees than men. These women also showcase their sexual freedom.