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With the pioneering and groundbreaking depiction of the female form by Valadon through the subversion of her predecessor's techniques, The Blue Room can be seen as the starting point for a long lasting legacy for female artists.  As Janet Burns notes in Looking as Women: The Paintings of Suzanne Valadon, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and Frida Kahlo, “given the bias of western culture to fetishizing the female body, the nude is a difficult genre for women artists. It is enshrined as an icon of culture that epitomizes and objectifies female sexuality.” After Valadon, many younger, female artists were inspired by her realistic depiction of the female form through stylistic decisions and embraced the autonomy promoted by the revolutionary art style.
Frida Kahlo Suzanne Valadon Paula Modersohn-Becker