An essay titled for its central figure's "choice" is the second chapter of T.J. Clark's The Painting of Modern Life.
This painting was exhibited with a terrible poem including lines like "It is the slave, like the amorous night, who comes to make the day bloom, delicious to see." An essay titled for its central figure's "choice" is the second chapter of T.J. Clark's The Painting of Modern Life. Contemporary critics seem to have missed most of its central figure's hair, since it is almost the same color as the Japanese screen in the background. It was first exhibited below its artist's Jesus Insulted by the Soldiers. It was attacked for the heavy charcoal outlines and tensed left (*) hand of the central figure, whose skin was compared to a cadaver. Its central figure wears a black choker and an orchid in her hair. The artist's friend Baudelaire called it "the pictureÂ… with the Negress and the cat." This painting shows Victorine Meurent ("murrÂ­ON") posed like the Venus of Urbino. For 10 points, name this painting of a nude prostitute, by Ã‰douard Manet.
This painting was exhibited with a terrible poem including lines like "It is the slave, like the amorous night, who comes to make the day bloom, delicious to see."
Olympia