Le Violon d'Ingres (Ingres's Violin)

Title (Dublin Core): Le Violon d'Ingres (Ingres's Violin)
Type (Dublin Core): Photograph
Medium (Dublin Core): gelatin silver prints
Description (Dublin Core): Man Ray was an admirer of the paintings of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and made a series of photographs, inspired by Ingres's languorous nudes, of the model Kiki in a turban. Painting the f-holes of a stringed instrument onto the photographic print and then rephotographing the print, Man Ray altered what was originally a classical nude. He also added the title Le Violon d'Ingres, a French idiom that means "hobby." The transformation of Kiki's body into a musical instrument with the crude addition of a few brushstrokes makes this a humorous image, but her armless form is also disturbing to contemplate. The title seems to suggest that, while playing the violin was Ingres's hobby, toying with Kiki was a pastime of Man Ray. The picture maintains a tension between objectification and appreciation of the female form.
has dimension (CIDOC CRM Ontology): 29.6 × 22.7 cm (11 5/8 × 8 15/16 in.)
Creator (Dublin Core): Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
Date (Dublin Core): 1924
Coverage (Dublin Core): Surrealist
Subject (Dublin Core): violins
References (Dublin Core): https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104E4A#full-artwork-details; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Violon_d%27Ingres