In recreating the picture, the main ingredient was this in-your-face sensuality. I chose a model who had this quality naturally, and enhanced it in the direction of the pose.
What you see is what you get.
The original:
"Olympia", Edouard Manet
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Photography and Painting
When Manet's Olympia was shown in Paris it caused a sensation. It depicted a successful courtesan in her boudoir, staring frankly and un-apologetically out of the frame. It was sexual liberation at its rawest, a hundred years before its time, and it shocked its audience to the core.
In recreating the picture, the main ingredient was this in-your-face sensuality. I chose a model who had this quality naturally, and enhanced it in the direction of the pose.
What you see is what you get.
In recreating the picture, the main ingredient was this in-your-face sensuality. I chose a model who had this quality naturally, and enhanced it in the direction of the pose.
What you see is what you get.
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