Wednesday, December 6, 2006

figure of nostalgia




Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingre's
La Grande Odalisque, 1814
Pre-Romantic (Neoclassical)
and overly realist.






The detail in her headscarf alone is stunning, but if you look closely ... Ingres added an extra vertebrae to make her slightly more beautiful to fit his idealized sense of beauty.

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