ÉDOUARD MANET A JEHO OLYMPIA

• Authors: Michalovič Peter

Title variants

EN

Édouard Manet and his Olympia

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper entitled Édouard Manet and his Olympia attempts to justify why this painting can be considered one of the founding paintings of modernism in painting. On the one hand, Manet adheres to some of the basic conventions applicable to the genre of the “nude,” as evidenced by the inter-iconic reference to Titian’s painting Venus of Urbino. On the other hand, he partly departs from these conventions and partly enters into open conflict. The image of Olympia does not represent a divine, ideal beauty but a woman’s body, even the body of a prostitute. Manet attempts to represent with the painting what is symptomatic of the present and what is indexical of this present. The painting of Olympia has sparked controversy, sparked by its subject matter and artistic articulation. The paper attempts to interpret this controversy’s thematic and formal causes.

Keywords

EN

GENRE; NUDE; MODERN PAINTING; ÉDOUARD MANET

• Publisher: Institute of History of Art, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: ARS
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 22-31

Contributors

author

Michalovič Peter

• Filozofická fakulta UK, Gondova 2, 811 02 Bratislava, Slovak republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2023-0003