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Reclining Venus
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The Reclining Venus—alternatively known as odalisquenote a Frenchified form of the Turkish word odalik, "chambermaid" or simply Reclining Nude—is a Stock Pose in Western art depicting a woman reclining against a bed or couch, often in differing states of undress. The implications of what is occurring in the image differs. Since admiration and idealization for the human form was common place in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Classicists and their post-Renaissance successors preferred showing off the human body as a means of capturing the human form and all of its anatomical splendor. However, since much of history's remembered artists are men, Male Gaze is most definitely involved, the staging either implying the women are Ready for Lovemaking or are simply intimate enough with the artist that this would not be the first time they have been seen naked so casually. But make no mistake; It's Not Porn, It's Art. While male depictions of the Reclining Venus do exist, since the paintings are universally recognized as Always Female, pop-culture usually plays gender-inversions of the trope as comedy. Often times, the Reclining Venus position is associated, if not interchangeable, with "the Sleeping Nymph", a motif that began during The Renaissance involving a depiction of a woman (the eponymous "nymph") sleeping in a similar reclining position. Can be considered a sister trope to Reclining Reigner and Sitting Sexy on a Piano. See other Art Subjects such as Death and the Maiden, Crucified Hero Shot, "Back to Camera" Pose, and Nude Nature Dance. Related to Art Imitates Art and Life Imitates Art. |
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Adventure Time: Finn and Jake have a painting in their home of a reclining nude woman that is mostly covered up by a portion of the painting ripped open. | |
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A background image in The Far Side involving a pair of snake gunslingers had a painting of a long-lashed python on the wall behind the bar. | |
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In Titanic (1997), the odalisque position is evoked when Rose asks Jack to draw her a nude portrait while wearing nothing but her blue diamond necklace, Rose reclining on the couch. | |
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Freefall: Parodied with Helix's (mercifully offscreen) topiary sculpture "Sam as a Reclining Nude". The Sam in question is a tentacular Starfish Alien whose body is an affront to human eyes and minds, and there's not enough Brain Bleach on the planet to spare the viewers. | |
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In the Discworld, this is discussed as a comment on the foibles of the art and cultural world. The Royal Art Gallery has an impressive collection of female nudes, for instance, both in art and statuary, and it is noted that the carpet in front of them is worn down to the underlay by the sheer pressure of visiting crowds, who are unaccountably disinterested in landscapes or still lives that don't feature female nudes. A Snark Knight notes that if it doesn't have a strategically placed urn or a length of gauze in the picture, it is therefore Pornography but if it does, it is elevated to Art. There is also an amateur art group, the Ankh-Morpork Fine Art Appreciation Society, who regularly attend classes to appreciate the female nude; some members even remember to sharpen their pencils or to dip the brush into the paint occasionally. An odalisque of the young Gytha Ogg appears as one of the sketches behind Leonard of Quirm in Nanny Ogg's Cookbook. While most of Leonard's works reference Leonardo da Vinci, it's possible this is intended as a reference to a different Leonardo (see above). |
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Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: Dr. Robotnik does this a few times — it goes about as well as you think! | |
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Columbo, "Double Exposure": In Dr. Keppel's motivational film about advertising, there is a shot of a half-lying, half-sitting model in a bikini. | |
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The Borgias. In "The Purge", Cesare is called into his sister Lucrezia's bedchamber only to find her naked on the bed in this manner. | |
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Murdoch Mysteries, "This One Goes to Eleven": Mrs. Sally Pendrick is being portrayed in an "odalisque" pose, lying completely naked on a sofa by the pool in her and her husband's residence. Detective Murdoch is quite embarrassed to run into her being painted like that. The painting is done in a modern, non-representational style with geometric figures in primary colours (very much a proto-Cubist style). Constable Crabtree believes it represents a pyramid, but Dr. Julia Ogden clearly sees it's "a woman in a rather intimate pose". | |
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Step by Step, "What's Wrong with this Picture?": Dana is asked to pose for feminist abstract artist Jayne McNeil. Feeling honored, Dana accepts. Jayne then asks her to pose nude. Convinced that the painting will be abstract and she won't be recognizable, Dana agrees. She later invites her family to the charity auction where the painting will be unveiled. Unbeknownst to Dana, Jayne decided to switch to photo-realism. Dana, portrayed half sitting, half lying nude on a sofa, is very recognizable. The painting itself is only shown in an Unreveal Angle. See here◊. | |
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The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: The final video "The Monster O'McDonaldland Loch", has a portrait of a female anthropomorphic dog lying on a bed appear in the background in the scene where Hamburglar tears his pants trying to scare Birdie, her body covered only by a bedsheet. | |
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Parodied in the Saturday Night Live Digital Short "Everyone's a Critic", when Andy Samberg and Paul Rudd paint nude portraits of each other in the Reclining Venus position and try to sell them at an art auction. The only problem is that anyone who looks at the resulting work is driven to violent, suicidal hysteria if the internal hemorrhaging does not kill them first. | |
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Red Dead Redemption II: The French painter and Gadfly Charles Chatenay produces a full exhibition of reclining nudes, male and female, which scandalizes his 19th-century southern American audience. A melee breaks out when they start recognizing their own relatives in the paintings. | |
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One of the in-game paintings in Terraria, "Dryadisque", parodies the Grande Odalisque with the Dryad as the subject. | |
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