Best Known for the Fanservice: Olympia is one of Edouard Manet's most famous paintings because it caused scandals for its risque content. At the time, nudity in art was only acceptable when it came to fantasy creatures like nymphs, angels, mermaids, fairies, etc. Meanwhile, this piece shows a prostitute in a Reclining Venus pose.
Values Dissonance: The "negress" is portrayed by Laure, an art model in France that had worked with Manet many times. While at the time it was no big deal, modern viewers could read a rather racist view of how she is depicted with Victorine Meurent, the position as a woman servant for a white woman (even one as lowly thought of as a prostitute) in clothes that make her look almost like a "mammie."
Fair for Its Day: As racist as Nazi Germany was (and as surely as it wanted good PR during the 1936 Olympic Games), the African-American Jesse Owens has a fair amount of screentime and isn't showed as 'inferior' to German athletes in any way.
