Ingres, La Grande Odalisque발음듣기
Ingres, La Grande Odalisque
(piano music) Male: We're at the Musee du Louvre, and we're looking at Ingres' "Grande Odalisque."발음듣기
Ingres was hired to paint it by the sister of Napoleon, who, at that time, was married to the king of Naples.발음듣기
What's also interesting is that by the time Ingres finished the painting and delivered it, well, they were gone.발음듣기
Now of course, Ingres had never been in a harem, and so this is very much a Western idea of what a harem would be like.발음듣기
Male: OK, so I think that's really important because historically, this is completely inaccurate.발음듣기
Male: But it is very much a 19th century French construction of what they imagined that luxury-laden, sensuous, and distant experience was.발음듣기
France, of course, was a colonial power in that part of the world, and some art historians have written that in some ways, these sorts of paintings were a justification for France in that part of the world.발음듣기
Male: And therefore having a moral right to civilize, so it is very imperialist in its thinking.발음듣기
Female: But at the same time, as we're saying that, we have to imagine the Parisians in 1819 taking pleasure in looking at this odalisque.발음듣기
Male: Quite a bit of pleasure, and we see the same pleasure in the viewers in the Louvre right now.발음듣기
It is this voluptuous and very sensuous expression of the human body, one that is heightened because although Ingres comes out of the Neo-Classical tradition, was a student of David's.발음듣기
He is also this important bridge to Romanticism, but in this particular rendering, Ingres has taken the fidelity to anatomy as secondary.발음듣기
If one imagines where that leg would connect with the hip, it doesn't quite work in relationship to the other hip.발음듣기
And so there is a languidness that he is able to achieve that would be impossible with a kind of anatomical accuracy.발음듣기
Female: And there is a kind of tension, I think, between sensuality and a distance that Ingres puts between us and the figure.발음듣기
We do see her back, but she turns back towards us, but that look is an icy, aloof, and distant look.발음듣기
Female: The other thing is that the sensuality of the interior, in some ways, really competes, at least for me, with the nude female figure.발음듣기
If you look at the composition, the frame is actually quite long, like her body is, but she almost doesn't fit.발음듣기
Female: So we see in this odalisque an image that is very much what we would consider Romanticism, an interest in the exotic ...발음듣기
Although he seems to be the standard-bearer for the academic tradition, he doesn't really uphold that 100% in his work.발음듣기
Male: It's interesting because he comes out of the Neo-classical, and he's got that precision and that sense of the morality of painting, but then ...발음듣기
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