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▲ Édouard Manet（1832–1883）, 《Olympia》, 1863, oil on canvas, 130 × 190 cm, Musée d‘Orsay
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轉貼：With Olympia, Manet reworked the traditional theme of the female nude, using a strong, uncompromising technique. Both the subject matter and its depiction explain the scandal caused by this painting at the 1865 Salon. Even though Manet quoted numerous formal and iconographic references, such as Titian‘s Venus of Urbino, Goya‘s Maja desnuda, and the theme of the odalisque with her black slave, already handled by Ingres among others, the picture portrays the cold and prosaic reality of a truly contemporary subject. Venus has become a prostitute, challenging the viewer with her calculating look. This profanation of the idealized nude, the very foundation of academic tradition, provoked a violent reaction. Critics attacked the "yellow-bellied odalisque" whose modernity was nevertheless defended by a small group of Manet‘s contemporaries with Zola at their head.
1865 年在沙龍展出時，人們對這個普通面孔、身體瘦弱的維納斯感到驚訝和氣憤。《奧林比亞》這幅畫似乎把傳統上對於維納斯所設定的審美標準打亂了。馬奈說，他首先是在尋求真實，他並不想打破傳統，也不想創建新的繪畫藝術。他強調，自己期望的是能夠呈現真實的形象……