Manet's "Olympia".
Title: Manet's "Olympia".
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1810 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Manet's "Olympia".
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1810 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
A naked woman on an unmade bed is the subject of Edouard Manet's 1863 painting Olympia. The painting was first unveiled in Paris in 1865 at the Salon, a place where people gathered together to admire pieces of art. The same year Manet painted Olympia, he submitted his painting Dejeuner sur l'herbe to the Salon. The jury, a group of people who decided which paintings were to be hung in the Salon, rejected this painting that illustrated
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de la Concorde. Then when the French authorities decided to move their treasures again, Olympia was placed in a new museum, which was created out of an old railroad station on the south bank of the Seine, the Gare d'Orsay. Although, her face is as still haunting as when it was first hung in 1865, now days when at first glance people admire enjoy and honour Olympia, her nudity, and her passionately deep, almost hypnotizing gaze.