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Art deco painter Tamara De Lempicka (born 1898 - died 1980) was incredibly popular for her portraiture work during the 1920s but it was her later works likeThe Refugees in 1937 and Breastfeeding ( date unknown) which have led us to believe that her feminist work deserves more recognition for her more political and controversial topics. Painting a woman breastfeeding wasn’t normal for women artists in her time period, but she defied norms as she painted nude women frequently.

Tamara De Lempicka portrays women as being quite muscular. The angular style of works like Le Modele andAndromeda show women with both muscular power and physique, despite the fact that Andromeda is chained to the ground awaiting a sea monster.

As a person Tamara De Lempicka had relationships with both men and women, seeming to favour the latter despite two marriages to wealthy affluent men. Her 1932 painting Adam and Eve suggests a healthy appetite for both the male and female form.