Visual Arts and Film Studies Grand Odalisque

Project description
There are many amazing art works in this week’s reading, but the painting, “Grande Odalisque”, created by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres struck me the most. In this painting, there is a naked woman lying down in a sofa, and her face towards and is looking us. She is only painted her back and one of her breast, but she is glamorous and attractive. She has transparently white skin, and there is certain coldness in her eyes. As compared with her body, the background is dark and makes people take attentions to her.
According to our text book, the painting is significant because it , though not a figure from any specific historical or mythological text, maintains monumentality and idealization typical of history painting. Ingre’s preoccupation with total relationship and formal counterpoints led him to push his idealization of the female body to the limits of naturalism, offering abstractions of the model from which he worked.
I really like this painting because her nudity is beautiful. When I saw this painting for the first time, I felt a little bit shock because even though she is described only her back, she is attractive and erotic. In addition, her facial expression is mysterious and coldness, so it makes me wonder what she was thinking about when she was painted.
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