Women & Art

Modern Olympia (after Manet)

1997 - by Ida Applebroog.

This painting is divided in 4 sections, but it all comes together to the same painting. The drawing is about women, real women, all natural. It has gray colors, but also warm, that's the way women are, they are warm and soft but can also be powerful and strong. It is showing different kinds of women, even thought they look similar, they aren't each one of them has something different that makes her special. They are like resting but they might be also subordinated, like prisoners on the floor, with out freedom.  When she made this drawing she was at the top of her career in the 90's when she received multiple honors. Maybe she was thinking in how passionate and great women can be, representing in her own way how she managed to get to the top, and anyone else can do it.

- Daniela Montserrat