Who's looking at whom? Who's posing and who's evaluating? This image is unresponsive: tense.
The female figure reclines naturally, but she is not alone: she is surrounded by a male court that doesn't admire, it observes. Golden Age faces, wearing El Greco ruffs, surround a reinterpreted Olympia.
Between the white of the body and the black of the trial, a network of pixels extends, breaking the scene into two phases.
