Posted 04-10-2008 at 01:51 AM by wheldon
Manet - Olympia
The questions asked by this painting when it was first displayed are still relevant today. A naked woman, propped up on a bed with a man holding flowers behind her. Is it the look in her eyes, the searching into our morals, our ideas about nakedness, intrigue. Is it the way in which she sits unmoving, unemotionally knowing that her body is beautiful, an object of desire and demand. Is it because there is no artistic ambiguity, she is so immediate, there is nothing to...
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