Why was the painting above not well received?
a. It wasn't proper for women to be shown in a pose such as this.
b. Critics felt the artist was attempting to rekindle socialist ideals.
c. It didn't show any elements of tradition.
d. all of the above

b. Critics felt the artist was attempting to rekindle socialist ideals

photography had emerged as an elite art pursued by a few creative individuals for a few wealthy patrons. but now, said bauldelaire, it was succumbing to "the great industrial madness of our times." it was becoming a mass production industry that catered to middle-class tastes, including a taste for gadgetry. the stereoscope, the first 3d imaging system, had turned looking at photographs into parlor entertainment. a "thousand hungry eyes were bending over the peepholes of the stereoscope as though they were the attic-windows of the infinite.