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Originally Posted by Sharon Knettell
I think one of he reasons 'realistic' work has been the whipping boy of the art market is the hegemony of French Academic School. Because of the sexually repressed Victorians, nudes could only be disguised as goddesses or shown off in slave market scenes such as in the egregious paintings of Alma-Tadema. Manet had the courage to challenge that stranglehold with his wonderful painting "Olympia", a frank portrait of a courtesan.
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I want to thank an artist from Spain who corrected me in an email on my Alma-Tadema reference. It was Gerome who painted "The Slave Market", not the aforementioned Alma-Tadema. I accidently lost his contact information.