![]() Neither of the girls in portraits are directly looking at the viewer, they are both caught on the canvas and captured, or rather, their beauty is captured. Seen from the profile, this Slovak girl’s blue eyes are also looking somewhere in the distance. Stokes painted this portrait during her travels to Hungary in 1905 and I’ve written about that here. Marianne Stokes’ painting of a Slovak girl this time, is also a portrait of a Slavic girl in traditional attire and yet the mood and the style are completely different. ![]() There’s an impenetrable shield of coldness and mystery around this Polish girl. Her white shawl with red flowers may appear as part of traditional clothes at first, but in this portrait it doesn’t give off that vibe of familiarity, tradition and warmth. The frizzy little locks of her blonde hair almost look as if they are paper cut-outs and her hands look like they belong to a wooden doll. The light is hitting her pale, beautifully sculpted face from bellow, and this makes me think of the black and white photographs of glamorous movie stars such as Hedy Lamarr. The portrait is closely cropped and she dominates the canvas, there is nothing else to look at but her. ![]() She looks like a living statue monumental, cold and untouchable. This Polish girl’s plump red lips and large steel blue eyes might otherwise be seductive and alluring, but in this painting they ooze a coldness that makes one hesitate to approach her, even gaze at her. Still, this painting of a Polish girl has been haunting my mind for weeks now there’s just something about it which lures me, it seems. I do find her life story terribly fascinating and her paintings peculiar and interesting, but her style of painting doesn’t appeal to me personally. I am not a big fan of Tamara de Lempicka’s paintings. Tamara de Lempicka, The Polish Girl, 1933
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