{"id":16765,"date":"2017-07-05T11:30:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T09:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=16765"},"modified":"2017-07-05T11:38:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T09:38:01","slug":"asbury-park-south-by-florine-stettheimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/asbury-park-south-by-florine-stettheimer\/","title":{"rendered":"Asbury Park South by Florine Stettheimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wv3BoNkPLfw?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (10:02): Stettheimer expert and art historian Barbara Bloemink provides a full exploration of the imagery and context of Florine Stettheimer&#8217;s highly important 1920 painting <em>ASBURY PARK SOUTH<\/em>. Asbury Park South is a highly significant painting as it is one of the earliest paintings in the 20th century of middle-class African-Americans shown in their own context by a Caucasian American artist.<\/p>\n<h2>The Stettheimer&#8217;s Salon<\/h2>\n<p>The Stettheimers (Florine and her two sisters) held a salons for the literati, professional artists and creatives in New York from 1915 &#8211; ca. 1935. It included a remarkable mixture of gay, lesbian, and bisexual members, whom Florine Stettheimer included in virtually all her compositions, beginning as early as 1920 and continuing until the end of her career. <\/p>\n<h2>Florine Stettheimer (1871 \u2013 1944)<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Florine_Stettheimer\" target=\"_blank\">Florine Stettheimer<\/a> emphasized women over men in her extraordinary painting of African-Americans, <em>Asbury Park South<\/em>. She became interested in the Harlem Renaissance through Van Vechten, a closeted gay photographer, who was a major patron of African-American culture and a member of the Stettheimers salon. The issue of whether the artist was or was not a lesbian often came up when her name was mentioned. It is a fact that she was a feminist who believed that marriage would hamper a woman&#8217;s posibilities as a professional artist, so she never married. In her painings she portrays unique subjects, including race, sexual orientation, gender, and religion. <\/p>\n<p>Barbara Bloemink writes, &#8216;Stettheimer was acutely aware of the subversive feminism of her \u201cfeminine\u201d point of view. In 1915 she completed, <em>Self-Portrait<\/em>, the first known example of a woman painting herself entirely nude. (&#8230;) Stettheimer was already forty-five years old when she completed <em>Self-Portrait<\/em>, an age when women were (and still are) considered well past their prime of youthful beauty. (&#8230;) The idea that a woman, particularly a wealthy, unmarried, middle-aged one, would paint herself nude was unthinkable. Stettheimer never publicly exhibited Self-Portrait.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h2>Related Link<\/h2>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/329408\/florine-stettheimer-feminist-provocateur\/\" target=\"_blank\">Florine Stettheimer: Feminist Provocateur<\/a><\/em> by Barbara Bloemink<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video (10:02): Stettheimer expert and art historian Barbara Bloemink provides the first full exploration of the imagery and context of Florine Stettheimer&#8217;s highly important 1920 painting ASBURY PARK SOUTH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[863],"class_list":["post-16765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-painting","tag-florine-stettheimer","post_format-post-format-audio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}