In The oil painting called ''Olympia" by Edouard Manet the image displays evidence of objects, emotions, eye-grabbing images, and reasoning as to why these appear in the portrait. The image is basically black and white with a small focus of color. The biggest focal point of the image is of a naked woman sitting on either a couch or bed covering her body parts. Her body seems to be the main focus due to her nudity and the fact that she seems more powerful with a semi- visual black man next to her that is catering her with flowers. The image discretely shows the black mans face along with a black cat resting on her bed. The background of the image is pretty empty and appears to show a small amount of detail to the background which is mostly just plain wallpaper.
The image displays many details such as a naked woman with a black person serving her flowers making the image feeling uncomfortable because of the fact that she's naked leading you to believe that she is superior than the man catering to her. The eye grabbing image was the flower in the woman's hair and the flowers in the man's hands because the rest of the color in the image is mostly black and white. The images that grab my attention the most is the obvious fact that she is naked and the flower in her hair due to the colors used in the portrait. The small details in the background draw the viewer to the naked woman and flower in her hair.
The woman's facial expressions is kind of staring off into the distance and the man is staring at her with a surprised look, (possibly to why she is naked.) The woman has a stern expression on her face and looks semi-angry.The overall feelings I receive from this image is uncomfortable because she is naked and she seems to not care that anyone sees her that way. I came to this conclusion because of the image on the black mans face and the very non-detailed background.
To conclude ,images such as this one drew a conclusion that the woman in power seems to be the naked one. The naked woman's powerful and stern expression proves that when in power things seem to be eye- grabbing and emotional.
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