![]() ![]() This frustration over the lack of scholarship surrounding black women in the art canon eventually led her to write a thesis entitled Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today. The incident touched on a larger problem in her studies, Murrell realized: black women in art history were all-too-often rendered invisible. Instead, she tells artnet News’ Naomi Rea, she wanted to discuss the second figure in the painting, a black servant who commands as much space as her white counterpart but is often ignored-which is exactly what happened that day in class. But when Denise Murrell, then a graduate student at Columbia University, saw the painting appear onscreen during a lecture, she wasn’t interested in hearing her professor’s thoughts on the woman at the center of the canvas. The work, widely considered the modernist successor to Titian’s 1534 “ Venus of Urbino,” depicts a prostitute boldly displaying her nude body to the viewer without a hint of modesty. ![]() Édouard Manet’s “ Olympia” is renowned for its subversive characteristics. ![]()
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