Inpressionism

"Olympia" By Manet, was a shocking and possibly even repulsive painting to the viewer. During this time a portrayal of a nude "French" courtesan was taboo of the highest degree. If it was a woman of any other "non-modern" culture it was fine and would be well received. If we look back at the salons of Manet's time, we cannot understand their objection to a nude French woman in relation to a naked woman, of a primitive culture. A naked woman is a naked woman (as you would be saying to yourself), but the limits of nudity and sexuality have become much more lenient through the decades. Now on TV (the mass salons of today) we see suggestive sexuality and suggested nudity in TV shows, while the ever popular YouTube we see open nudity and in some senses soft pornography, due to the lack of limits put on what people can put and find on the Internet. In the 20Th century, open sexuality is an everyday thing that we glance over in the media. Now some of the examples above are the extremes, but they are much more prevalent than five or ten years ago, and by far more prevalent in public than the days of Manet's salons.