Edouard Manet's Olympia is recognized as one of the turning points in art history. This work, which bridges the gap between classical and modern art, Olympia, symbolizing the disintegration and disappearance of tradition and an uncertain future, reflects the transition process from Realism to Impressionism by opposing the image of women and the idealized understanding of the beauty that has been going on since the Renaissance. Reinterpreting Tiziano's Venus of Urbino from a modern perspective, Manet also trivialized the “subject” and emphasized the themes of eroticism and sexuality from an ordinary point of view. In this study, through Manet's Olympia, feminist discourses such as gender, sexuality, race, marginalization through the female body, and the disintegration and disappearance of the Classical Art tradition are discussed. The works of Renee Cox, Yasumasa Morimura, Mel Ramos, Robert Morris, Agnes Thurnauer, and Katarzyna Kozyra, who reinterpreted Olympia, were analyzed using content analysis, semiotics, and hermeneutics. It has been observed that Olympia, with its strategy of “appropriation” in the postmodern period, had a profound effect on the artists, reflected the social and cultural dynamics of the 19th century, and prepared the ground for feminist criticism of the female body.

Keywords: Gender, Feminism, Appropriation, Olympia, Postmodernism