Many paintings made around the 1800s and 1900s were intended to be sold to upper-class citizens who targeted more of a male audience. While Edward Manet's Olympia appears to do just that, it actually takes a different turn than its predecessors, Titian and Giorgione to be exact, with the same pose. There, the models in the paintings are depicted as goddesses, while at Olympia the model became the goddess herself. What is even more controversial is when Yasumasa Morimura creates his own Olympia and titles it Portrait (Futago), and puts his own body in the painting saying that he is now the goddess. These two paintings have many similarities overall, but the main issue that both are trying to make the viewer see is the reality of this world that is not seen in earlier reclining nude paintings. In Manet's painting Olympia, the viewer is confronted with two women, one white and one black. The black woman is bent over and hands flowers to the white woman who appears to be upper class but could also be lower class. This woman is lying on a bed and supported by pillows with a black cat standing at the end of the bed and also looking at the viewer. Like her cat, she looks at the viewer with an indifference that both shocks and attracts him. While the black woman is dressed, the white woman is naked and wears only shoes, bracelets, a flower in her hair and a necklace of ribbons. The colors of this painting also reflect the personality of the white woman, cold and unfeeling. In Yasumasa Morimura's painting, Portrait (Futago), the viewer is confronted with two people of different skin colors. However, instead of painting a woman in a reclining position, Morimura put himself in that position...... middle of paper ...... and imagine yourself in that place and position. Since we can't mime this, Morimura went into the painting to mime this sequence and show what it would look like. This action humanized the whole picture because it shows that he is an ordinary person who acts like this, just like Olympia's wife. Plus, the fact that it's a man doing this makes it just as scandalous as Olympia, because it's a naked man staring at you like the courtesan is at Olympia. Although there are many other comparisons that can be made, the idea of ​​the real woman is clearly the main idea of ​​what Manet and Morimura meant in these paintings. Even though Morimura dressed up as a girl to represent this, he still says that a real woman has confidence in herself and that everyone has flaws that will never change..