Though created in very different periods and across the globe from one another, Henry Ford Hospital, painted by Frida Kahlo in 1932, and Olympia, painted by Edouard Manet in 1865, present viewers with vulnerably confronting representations of the nude female figure in relation to her sexuality. The inherent difference between these reposed representations is, however, the facet of the sexual figure that is speaking to her onlookers: From Frida, we are given an image of the woman as a reproductive…
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