Philip Pearlstein’s Reclining Nude on Green Couch depicts an unclothed woman lounging on a bright green couch. The woman naps while sprawled out along the furniture with one arm tucked behind her head, while the other rests along her stomach. Pearlstein entangles the model with the background and extends the female form into the furniture. The contrasting colors and oblique perspective provides a new take on the idea of a lounging woman, and does not hide the risqué themes and abjection of the female body. The artist is brutally honest with his portrayal of women and shows off the realness of the woman through a more abject perspective of the body and more socially unattractive features of women, such as pubic hair, and a thoughtless, more