An artist in Paris stopped to pose nude in a museum – El Universal – Colombia

A woman was arrested for indecent exposure in Paris after posing nude in the Musée d’Orsay in front of a painting by Edouard Manet representing the Olympia prostitute in a similar position, his lawyer said on Sunday.

The Luxembourg artist Deborah de Robertis chose the exhibition “Splendor and Misery: Images of prostitution 1850-1910″ to undress and “with a camera filming the audience reaction,” said his lawyer, Tewfik Bouzenoune . “It was an artistic performance,” claimed

It is not the first scandal tied to Olympia. The picture of the naked woman questioning gaze directly to the public and created controversy when it was first shown in 1865 .

The work depicts a prostitute, a far cry from the idealized female figures of the time real woman.

The Naked De Robertis was, however, too real for . tastes Orsay museum

“There were many people in front of the box Security guards responded well. They locked the room and asked him to dress as he refused, they called the police to take her out. from there, “said a spokeswoman for the museum, which has brought charges against the artist for exhibitionism.
De Robertis and starred in another incident in May 2014 in the center to expose her vagina in front of the box Gustave Courbet’s “The Origin of the World,” which reproduces the image of female genitals.
Despite the reputation of sexual liberation attributed to France, the country has lived with difficulty in recent years mix art and sex.

Both a work of Paul McCarthy representing a huge dildo in the luxurious Place Vendome in Paris as a work of Anish Kapoor entitled “Queen’s vagina” located in the Versailles were vandalized in 2014 and 2015, respectively.