Olympia
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Olympia is Édouard Manet’s groundbreaking 1863 oil painting that scandalized Paris with its frank depiction of a reclining nude and is now regarded as a pivotal work in the development of modern art.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Olympia (painting) | 0 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oil painting
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painting ⓘ |
| artCriticReception |
initially negative
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later highly acclaimed ⓘ |
| artHistoricalContext |
Second Empire of France
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surface form:
Second French Empire
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| artworkSurface | canvas ⓘ |
| collection |
Musée d'Orsay
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surface form:
Musée d’Orsay collection
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| colorPalette | high contrast light and dark tones ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Édouard Manet ⓘ |
| depicts |
Victorine Meurent
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black cat ⓘ black maid ⓘ bouquet of flowers ⓘ reclining nude woman ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt | Salon of 1865 ⓘ |
| genre | nude painting ⓘ |
| hasEffect |
became symbol of modern art
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provoked critical outrage ⓘ scandalized Parisian public ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
20th-century modernist painting
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Impressionism ⓘ Post-Impressionism ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
class and race
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gaze and power dynamics ⓘ modernity ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
| inception | 1863 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Titian
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Venus of Urbino ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Paris ⓘ |
| location |
Musée d'Orsay
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surface form:
Musée d’Orsay
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| mainSubject |
confrontational female nude
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modern courtesan ⓘ |
| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| model | Victorine Meurent ⓘ |
| movement |
Modern art
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Realism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bold contrasts of light and dark
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break with academic conventions ⓘ direct gaze of the model ⓘ flattened pictorial space ⓘ frank depiction of nudity ⓘ |
| originalLanguageTitle | Olympia self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| partOf | development of modern art ⓘ |
| significantEvent | controversial reception at 1865 Salon ⓘ |
| title | Olympia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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subject surface form:
Olympia (painting)