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Olympia was ruthlessly compared to Titian’s Venus of Urbino. However, it appears that this critic might have been onto something unknowingly. It is said that Manet’s works of 1863 are homages to Titian.
See the similarities?
Titian, Venus of Urbino
Manet, Olympia
Daumier, The Critic
Daumier, Sculpture
Daumier, Critics
Daumier, Before the Painting
Daumier, Up Close
Daumier, Free Admission (to Paris Salon)
Daumier, Venuses
Part of the issue in picking a WordPress theme to utilize is that they are pretty rigidly designed. The theme that I picked that was closest to the look and format I was going for has no ability to enter an image into the header region. This is a bit of a problem if viewers don’t get a central clue of what the painting looks like overall. Currently I have placed an image using the Widget option in WordPress in the bottom right hand column. However, I feel that this is a bit hidden.
I can insert images within posts but there is not HTML insert option for the header at all.
Is there anyway to customize the code? From my understanding, the only way you can possibly look at that is to self-host the blog and then you have to know how to code the .php files. Uggh.
It is important to compare and place Olympia within the context of what was acceptable or well-received for a nineteenth century nude. I have posted to the Olympia 1865 blog Flickr images of “acceptable” nudes. I used Flickr in order to use the WordPress widget, but somehow I am not happy with the way it looks. In a sense, I think a slide show might be nice because the images seem so static. I don’t think I can integrate but a visualization map of these images would be helpful. It’s also important to convey how they are acceptable. Is there a way to show this without text?
The Acceptable Nude: Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, 1814
Daumier’s caricatures are absolutely essential to producing the society of 1865, the satire on the Paris Salon, on the bourgeois, and on Olympia. There are also additional caricatures done on Olympia not done by Daumier.
Daumier, Free Admission (to Paris Salon)
