Art History for All

Episode 20: Big Odalisque Energy

10.28.2019 - By Allyson HealeyPlay

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There are lots of different types of bodies in the world, but artist Fernando Botero focuses on the rounder kind--in this episode, Allyson tells you about Botero's 1998 painting L'Odalisque, and talks about how it relates to body image and ideas of the "other."

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