Olympia was modeled on Titian’s Venus of Urbino (c. Painted the same year as Le Déjeuner, Olympia debuted at the 1865 Salon, causing an even greater uproar than its predecessors. Modernism’s ur-masterpiece, it was, like The Absinthe Drinker, rejected by the Academy, and subsequently exhibited in the notorious Salon des Refusés of 1863. Besides presumptuously gazing at the viewer, the woman has her dress piled nearby, as if she’d stripped for the occasion. Though it was as naked as its subject in terms of ambition, Le Déjeuner wasn’t the first such scene: Its inspiration, Giorgione’s The Tempest (1508), paired a clothed male with a seminude female nursing a baby.īut Giorgione’s piece is allegorical, while Manet offers no such pretense. ![]() ![]() The reaction to The Absinthe Drinker pales in comparison with that to this pastoral, featuring an unclothed woman picnicking with two attired men.
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