How does The Blue Room (Valadon) elucidate its abstract?
The Blue Room (La chambre bleue) is a 1923 painting by French artist Suzanne Valadon. One of her most recognizable works, it has been called a radical subversion of representation of women in art. Like many of Valadon's later works, it uses strong colors and emphasizes decorative backgrounds and patterned materials.  Valadon depicts a modern 20th-century woman, clothed and smoking a cigarette, in a pose traditional to female nudes, particularly 19th-century images of odalisques and prostitutes, such as Edouard Manet's Olympia.The painting is in the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Edouard Manet's Olympia. Olympia Suzanne Valadon Musée National d'Art Moderne odalisques Paris Manet