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Jonathan Lasker’s, The History of the Boudoir, 1991, melds together abstract expression, minimalism, and pop art with the reclining nude. The work has the reduced color palette and rigid geometry characteristic of minimalism. The choice of baby blue and bubble gum pink give the piece a “cute,” commercial sensibility characteristic of pop art. The broken lines in the upper right hand corner and the thick application of paint in the foreground recall works by many abstract expressionists. The title of the painting encourages reading the pink marks as a naked woman and the blue background as the male spectator. Lasker creates an image that speaks to a current cultural moment characterized by complex and ambiguous relationships between advertising, explicit female sexuality, and the continuation of painting itself.
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