{"id":72293,"date":"2025-05-19T12:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/leather-boots-2000-high-heeled-shoes-2000\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T16:17:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:17:41","slug":"leather-boots-2000-high-heeled-shoes-2000","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/en\/leather-boots-2000-high-heeled-shoes-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Leather Boots (2000), High Heeled Shoes (2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"section HeaderBlock \">\n  <header>\n  <h1 class=\"title\"><i> Leather Boots (2000) <br> <\/i><i> High Heeled Shoes (2000) <\/i><\/h1>    <\/header>      \n  \n  <\/section>\n\n\n\n\n<section class=\"section ContentBlock\" >\n    \n  <div class=\"main mobileFirst\">\n    <div class=\"left \">\n                        <div class=\"mainText\">\n<p><em>My art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it\u2019s all about.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The entire complexity of life\u2014sex, birth, aging and death\u2014plays an equally important role in Marlene Dumas\u2019s unique form of painterly practice. For example, the various erotic bodies that populate many of her paintings, such as the luminous, back-lit crouching figure of <em>Leather Boots<\/em> (2000), the kneeling chiaroscuro protagonist of <em>High Heeled Shoes <\/em>(2000), or the contorted and dream-like phantom of her watercolor<em> Dorothy D-Lite<\/em> (1998) (on view in the first floor rotunda gallery), were based on <strong>images from pin up and pornographic magazines or<\/strong> Polaroid photographs that that the artist took of erotic dancers in Amsterdam whose bodies appealed to her in some way. While admiring the formal aspects of the bodies of her subjects\u2014the curve of the line of a crouching back, the symmetry of the arches formed by buttocks seen from behind\u2014Dumas\u2019s erotic paintings also foreground the circulation of gazes back and forth between the viewer and the viewed.<\/p>\n<p>While the artist might be painting strippers, her practice of painting portraits (whether her subjects are famous or anonymous) itself enacts a kind of stripping. As she\u2019s said in relation to this topic, \u201cit\u2019s not so much about exposing roles, or making the rich look dirty or the famous ordinary \u2014 it\u2019s a stripping down to that melancholy sex appeal that makes surnames disappear and first names fictional.\u201d<\/p>\n\n  <!-- Rich Text Editor Start -->\n  <\/div>\n\n                  <\/div>\n    <div class=\"right sticky\">\n              \n          <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":18835,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-72293","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Leather Boots (2000), High Heeled Shoes (2000) - Museum of Cycladic Art<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/en\/leather-boots-2000-high-heeled-shoes-2000\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Leather Boots (2000), High Heeled Shoes (2000) - 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