Tuesday 23 August 2011

Edouward Manet- Olympia

Edouard Manet, 1863,Olympia, Oil on canvas.
The artwork shows a female nude with a fair skin and a black person behind the scence.
Firstly, I would like to know why there is a involvement of the Black in an artwork during that era. From the analysis regarding this artwork, there is two figure in  this artwork. The figure on the left is actually a white salve and the figure on the right is a black servant.

Let us see,on now days in our perspective, is there any difference between the social classification of the servant and the slave?  Suppose it is belongs to a same level?
 

Back to our topic, the fair skin naked women is a prostitute while the right figure is a black servant to the prostitute.From the picture, we observed that the prostitute having a ignorant behavior with the servant although there is a bouquet of flower on her hand. In addition, both eye of the prostitute is facing toward the viewer. 

In terms of appearance, the transition of light on the naked girl is slightly unnatural.Why?
The development of camera start from the year approximately about 1817 years. Hence, there is a high possibility that the artwork actually is a picture before changed into a artwork on a canvas.This could be a reasonable when the cat was being shocked by the some of the element and the posture of the head of the prostitute at front posture indicating she is the main subject matter in this artwork. this can be explained through the expression of the black cat in the picture.

In addition, there is also a stratification of the social class of the salve.Why? The prostitute tend to have a higher class than the black servant when she work as a famous, high ended prostitute who only received appointment from the customer after he saw this artwork.


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