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OLYMPIA GAZE: DIRECT AND DEFIANTLY UNACCOMODATING

“On first inspection, one might wonder what all the fuss was about. Manet considered himself a painter of still life, and perhaps that’s why Olympia has such a quiet mystery about her. She lounges serenely, starkly unclad but strategically adorned … Continue reading

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BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY:DON’T SIT ON THE GRASS

“A commonplace woman of the demimonde, as naked as can be, shamelessly lolls between two dandies dressed to the teeth. These latter look like schoolboys on a holiday, perpetrating an outrage to play the man…this is a young man’s practical … Continue reading

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SALON DES LEFTOVERS: WHO’S FOR LUNCH?

He strove only for official recognition; he never thought of himself as making a protest, overthrowing the art of the past, or creating a new order. Yet that is exactly what he did: Edouard Manet, the reluctant revolutionary. Edouard Manet, … Continue reading

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