Artist: Manet
Themes:
-change of nude
-changes our value system: what makes you question what you seem to take as accurate/correct
-throws away basic ideals
-domestication of outrageous and attempts to normalize outrageous
-no clothes on and engaging with viewer; suggestive painting
-white skin tone is unnatural
-viewer and object relationship changed up
-otium/arcadia
-contemporary dress and activities
Artist: Manet
Themes:
-Media: information/news/media directly able to identify players
-Maximilian executed by mexican guerrillas
-Allows for spectatorship
Artist: Gustave Caillebotte
Themes:
-parisians become observer
-Flaneur: modern man who looked at crowds/takes on other personas; can gaze openly because no one knows who you are
-no formal center
-isolation w/ crowds
Artist: Manet
Themes:
-transportation: railroad is subject
-more people from outside coming into paris
-innocent young girl separated from new world
Artist: Monet
Themes:
-crowds
-people engaging with each other
-balloons have cheerful element
-active looking: given by POV of painting
Artist: Manet
Themes:
-mirror: as an illusion of reality; 2D surface showing 3D image; exactly what a painting does
-optical consumption: feet in corner, man/woman
-modern leisure w/ petit bourgeois
Artist: Manet
Themes:
-nude
-modernized/ updated venus of Urbino: white flesh tones; dirty skin; pose suggests business transaction
-open position, recline, gaze
-no longer goddess
-break from mold of the nude: no longer idealized
Artist: Monet
Themes:
-Leisure
-landscape: is subject
-optically engagement with outdoors: looking away from viewer; unusual
-water=reflective surface; transforms image to reflect in different way
Artist: Monet
Themes:
-Impressionist eye: color and primitive shading
-monet engages in sound/hearing using looser brush strokes for forms
-outdoors
-mimesis replaced w/ optical engagement
Artist: Monet
Themes:
-modern life: leisure activity
-clothing: allows blending of classes w/ rise of new bourgeoise; suggests time period ~1800
-impressionist eye: shading is crude in dress, ground, hat, umbrella, grade
Artist: Monet
Themes:
-optical consumption: checking each other out
-leisure activities
-impressionist eye: shading/perspective
-water tries to capture photography
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Artist: Monet
Themes:
-Japanese prints engage w/ impressionism
-modern life
-not every detail depicted
-impressionist eye: looking and painting: tone/shading not present
Artist: Monet
Themes:
-modernity: transportation w/ bridge, train,
-spectator: sailboats, arcadia,
Artist: Monet
Themes:
-Impressionist eye: blobs of color, shading crude
-focus is on paint itself: out of tubes
-modernity: urban backdrop even if called “sunrise”
-not meant to be a timeless image; shows specific time
-optical response
-no horizon line abandons
Lazare
Artist: Monet
Themes:
-break to late monet
-modernity/industrialization: 2nd largest train station
-new way of seeing: fog obstructs view of building
-isolation in huge crowds
-no religion: pointed arch suggests church (new church); celebration of steel,
Artist: Monet
Themes:
Artist: Monet
Themes:
-stormy effects at sea
-man is not in control; nature is
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Artist: Seurat
Themes:
-modernity: think about self; bourgeousie, clothing
Artist: Monet
Themes:
-modern: bourgeousie, clothing
-“scientific approach” to depicting time of day
-examines “immaterial” rather than urban setting
Artist: Monet
Themes:
-relate material to immaterial (scientific experiment)
-no engagement with spirituality even though cathedral is painted
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Artist: Monet
Themes:
-entirely man-made: modernization
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Artist: Monet
Themes:
-forms and styles = abstraction
-negates impressionism: not a specific time; rather a series of times; not done quickly/instantaneously; done in the studio
Artist: Monet
Themes: