ARTH 112 1st Edition Lecture 30 Eugene Delacroix Liberty Leading the People July 28 1830 Influence from baroque paintings neo baroque romantic o Most style at this time was inherited from the past focus on thematics rather than style o Not avant garde Follows expectations Allegorizes the city of Paris o Tall hats bourgeoisie the middle class is fighting o Bear breasts Both sexual and heroic o Make associations with traditions that go back into antiquity Jean Auguste Dominique Large Odalisque 1814 Orientalism arises from Napoleon s expeditions into Asia and Islamic culture in North Africa o Fascination with the mysterious east artistically aesthetically sensually o Hookah peacock feathers headscarves hookah pipe o Though her nudeness faces away she looks at the viewer drawing him in Portrays the male gaze apprehension Idea of presenting women as objects of desire to both hold and own Gustave Courbet The Stone Breakers 1849 Art by this time was becoming very political Not only trying to attain art for arts sake or an aesthetical goal There is something transcendental about the work and the artist o This is the notion where modernism comes in There workers are considered the lowest of the low o Portrays a boy that is too young to be working and a man too old to be working o Shows the inhumanity of man o Not heroic figures except in their ability to sustain and bear o Not heroic not erotic but social It is a critique of a particular class EdouardManet Le Dejeuner surl herbe 1863 This painting was made for an exhibition The viewers would have seen the woman in the forefront as a prostitute Has an impressionist feeling flattening out of colors lack of finish and is seen better from a distance The female breaks the 4th wall dispelling of theatricality Also breaks the male gaze o Surveillance is imposed by both the painting and the viewer Creates tension o Woman in the back is mysterious allegorical EdouardManet Olympia 1862 3 Another painting of a prostitute famous in Paris Nothing is held back she is not a submissive figure She is proud and apologizes for nothing The painting is tense and confrontational o Enabling she has much more power than even you the figure Black servant has brought flowers in undoubtedly from a client Also in a loose impressionist style Art for the sake of art art that calls attention to itself EdouardMent A Bar at the Folies Bergere 1881 2 Woman is a bartender Lonely gaze empty expression Juxtaposes with the night life of Paris around her it is supposed to be a jovial place The man in the reflection in the back is a representation of the viewer Mirrors are disjointed reflects how disjointed she is from her environment
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