Abstract
This article critiqued western aesthetics, which manipulated the representations of the oriental social reality in Modern Painting. Western aesthetics created an illusionistic link between the oriental society and occidental audience when modern artists from western cultures painted the orient and exaggerated the images of its people, landscape and visual cultures. The phenomenon of painting the odalisque was one of the stereotypical imagery made on the oriental cultures. This requires a trans-modern critique as well as trans-aesthetic rethinking to translate the real oriental realities to the western audience. Furthermore, such critique illustrates a clearer picture of the oriental trans-modernity and its cultural connections. The cliche of the odalisque is the subject of this critical article while rethinking the structures of western aesthetics through post-colonial as well as multicultural critique is its purpose. This article contributes to the critical literature that investigates the oriental cultures from global and trans-aesthetic perspectives. Keywords: Trans-Modernity, Contemporary Aesthetics, Orient, the Art of Painting. DOI : 10.7176/JTHS/43-06 Publication date :September 30 th 2019
Highlights
The Trans-Modern Critique: This study introduces a multicultural, trans-aesthetic and trans-modern critique that negotiates the subject of the odalisque in the modern western paintings
In the context of rethinking particular biases that existed during the western modernism, the hierarchies of occidental aesthetics represented the non-European women as sexual objects
The political landscape during the rise of modernity in the 19th century was remarkably distinct from today's political landscape, into which European geography coexisted next to the Ottoman extended geography, culture, and trade
Summary
This study introduces a multicultural, trans-aesthetic and trans-modern critique that negotiates the subject of the odalisque in the modern western paintings. In the context of eastern social dynamics, this study denoted the significance of investigating and exploring arts through the lens of society rather than the literature of the orientalists It is the common figure of speech on imagination versus reality when many orientalists did not visit the east at all and did not encounter the real eastern culture. Women face a variety of dilemmas that exclude them from participating in the social progress of the community; it could be the same problem that has different dimensions according to the country (Wijdan, 2003) In this hypothetical context, the trans-modern obsession of integrating the conventional values into contemporary culture becomes obvious in present society. This question of identity through collective versus individual thoughts negotiates the common social and political patterns of the community and challenges its collective or mainstream thoughts (Barakat, 1995)
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