The Grande Odalisque is an important work of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, If strictly required based on the classical style, there were many “deviant” places in this painting. First of all, the “range” of color had been severely damaged. The strong blue and the yellow naked skin on the background as well as the light and dark body and the pink tone were not harmonious. Secondly, the exaggerated form mentioned above. The female nude almost became the test of deformation beauty and completely betrayed the teacher’s training. Ingres’s student Duval had tried to defend him, he said: “I do not want to say, Mr. Ingres is romanticism. But I also affirm that he never did understand the ‘classical’.” Ingres seemed to show his independence in the face of the nature, but because of the firm belief of Ingres’s aesthetics, this performance led to people’s ambiguity for his ideas. Attack and criticism could

to duel with scabbard.” The critics De Kailateli spoke more pertinent and told Ingres’s students, “His maid’s back at least had three vertebras.” However, Ingres’s student Amauri Duval who once made the biography for Ingres said more positively, “He may be right, but so what? Perhaps this long waist made her so gentle and attracted the audience all of a sudden. If her body proportion was absolutely correct, it was likely not so attractive.”