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Learn from ‘’The Most Outrageous Artwork’’ by Edouard Manet

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Learn from ‘’The Most Outrageous Artwork’’ by Edouard Manet

‘’The Most Outrageous Artwork’’ can lead to something! Imagine this, it is 1865, you look cute! and you are in attendance at the prestigious Paris salon,  impatiently awaiting the uncovering of Edouard Manet's new painting "Olympia''.  The air is filled with excitement and anticipation, the time has come and the artist uncovers his masterpiece... but the atmosphere suddenly shifts and the salon becomes filled with murmurs of indignation! Indeed, you are in awe but appalled by what you are viewing.  1.Édouard Manet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. - (1832-1883) Olympia 1863Oil on canvas H. 130; W. 190 cm We can tell there's a pale naked women on an...

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