Today’s lecture was recorded and on Impressionism. I found it interesting that impressionism (the interest in capturing the essence, or “impression” of something), essentially stemmed from the ability of technology to perfectly capture images (via photography).
The cat in Manet’s Olympia remains to be my favorite animal depicted in art. Ever. I really enjoyed the interesting perspective of Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergères, and how he utilized the composition of having a large mirror in the background to showcase to the viewer what lies beyond the frame of the canvas.
Degas and Cassatt are two of my favorites, and I never knew they were friends! I absolutely adore Cassatt’s use of perspective, growing up a lot around East Asian art, I could definitely see the inspiration she took from artprints in her works.