Women Brushing Their Hair
Despite the mundanity of the act itself, many artists have elected to paint women brushing their hair. I love the dignity and spiritual calm the act seems to inspire.
Degas particularly favoured women at their toilette and himself explained: "It is the human animal preoccupied with itself, like a cat licking itself. Hitherto the nude has always been shown in poses which take an audience for granted. My women are simple creatures and honest too, and are concerned with nothing except their physical occupation."
