A further ironic implication of Farrell's, Boucher's, and Moore's use of the imagery of the odalisque is that the signification of "odalisque" as concubine is itself a projection of the European mind, since its original Turkish meaning is simply that of "'woman of the room [oda],' implying a general servant status" (Croutier 30-32). ❋ Unknown (2000)
Whether Lalla Rookh, Larry Rourke, the Madonna Irlanda, or Mademoiselle O'Murphy, the Irish odalisque is no paradox or oxymoron. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Similarly, Boucher's model for an odalisque is not an actual Circassian, Georgian, or Abkhasian woman (as an odalisque in Turkey likely would have been) (Croutier 30); instead she is from Ireland, a not quite as foreign European colony, and the fantasy is safely controlled. ❋ Unknown (2000)
If "odalisque" had been what Ray called an objectionable word, he would have thrown the picture out in the first place. ❋ Unknown (1915)
UP Pompeii: UK girl taken - to be turned into an "odalisque" ❋ Gandalf (2010)
"odalisque", it is not only white girls that are taken, many from India and Sri Lanka are also taken ❋ Gandalf (2010)
"Olympia," a contemporary odalisque propped on silken pillows, with a maid bearing flowers and a black cat in attendance, was accepted in 1865. ❋ Judy Fayard (2011)
In "Feeling me" (2004), she shows herself naked, posed as an odalisque against a black background with her husband's hand (all we see of him) resting on her distended belly. ❋ William Meyers (2011)
From the young loner in his garret, a conventional archetype in a conventional style; to the prophet unrecognised in Paris, a Tahitian odalisque glowing behind him in the cold studio; right up to the shorn and spectacled invalid staring out of the blue twilight of his days. ❋ Laura Cumming (2010)
An elongated odalisque and a pair of unexpectedly spontaneous studies for the voluptuous fantasy "The Turkish Bath" remind us that distinctions between Romanticism and Neo-Classicism may be irrelevant. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)
But Ana, the odalisque, finds the closeted world of the harem stifling and unbearable. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Both knife-edged arms crossed in front of the green thorax, and the decorated head rested on the crux they formed, producing a frozen image of an insectoid odalisque. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Riffing on an idea often used by Matisse, Picasso fantasizes himself a sultan, and Marie-Thérèse is an odalisque in his harem. ❋ John Seed (2010)
The art critic reclines nude as an odalisque: brazen pose, but he still has to keep an impressively stern eye on the viewer just to compete with his own mighty genitalia. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Included are Arshile Gorky's surrealist ode to Kierkegaard, "Diary of a Seducer" (1945), a delicately tuned, erotically tinged world of smoky and earthen grays; De Kooning's cool, black and white "Painting" (1948), in which misshapen forms achieve an electric, silvery-hued gestalt, and his viscous and vicious dismantling of the odalisque, "Woman I" (1950-52). ❋ Lance Esplund (2010)
However, her portraits of women do go beyond the two prevailing stereotypes of colonial times, the odalisque and the “Fatma”. ❋ Unknown (2009)
On Thursday as a young clothing designer, Hannah Fallon, hunched beneath an expanse of filament-like fabric with a sewing machine to fix a flaw — “I felt like a silkworm,” she said — Mr. Neto stretched himself out in front of her to watch, lying on his side like a wild-haired Brazilian odalisque. ❋ EAGEAGEAG (2009)
