Manet’s Olympia vs. Alice Neel’s Lucile Rhodes: Comparing the Nude, Gaze, Gender, and Modernity
Édouard Manet’s Olympia and Alice Neel’s Lucile Rhodes are separated by more than a century, yet both paintings place a reclining nude woman directly before the viewer and ask who has the right to look. The comparison is productive because the works are not simply two versions of the same subject. Manet painted within the […]