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Need help with a painting parody

 
 
snuh
 
Reply Sat 24 Sep, 2005 06:44 pm
Hi,
I'd like to know if someone could tell me what painting this picture is a parody of.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9482/painting4uh.th.jpg

i think it's pretty famous but I'm ignorant...
thank you.
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mac11
 
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Reply Sat 24 Sep, 2005 09:37 pm
It mostly reminds me of this painting by Ingres called Grand Odalisque, but there are other similar paintings from the 19th century.

http://alloilpaint.com/orientalist/a34.jpg
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Miklos7
 
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Reply Sun 25 Sep, 2005 07:54 am
I believe mac11 has identified the most likely inspiration for your image. If you wish to look at other, similar sources, you might run a search for "odalisque + European paintings".
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snuh
 
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Reply Sun 25 Sep, 2005 08:35 am
Ok thanks, I thought I had seen a painting before that looked exactly the same but maybe it was just in my dream...

Thanks to you I found this one which is even closer, it's called "a reclining nude" by Ferencz baron de Hatvany

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/2508/arecliningnudeferenczbarondeha.th.jpg

What do you think ?
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Miklos7
 
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Reply Sun 25 Sep, 2005 02:21 pm
Although it feels a bit strange to be talking about consistency of tone when a parody is involved, to my eye, the Ingres is closer in tone to the parody illustration than is the de Havatny. The sultry quality of the Ingres is maintained in the parody. The de Havatny was probably composed to be more blatantly erotic. I find the weight/prominence of the woman's buttocks in the de Havatny to border on caricature by exaggeration!
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