Today’s lecture focused on art from the Impressionist movement. One artist in particular who stood out to me was Manet whose works often combined themes of Realism with the techniques of Impressionism. He also often included harsh critiques of French society in a number of his works to reaffirm his belief that art should be able to the modern world. He studied old masters and would often include references to their works in his art as a way to highlight his message about what art should be. He embodied the French concept of a fl\u00e2neu which was a witty, intellectual man who would stroll around Paris and observe everyday life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass<\/em> is meant to be a critique of the use of nudity in academic art being acceptable because it is about figures from a distant past. These paintings with naked women and clothed men, often showing figures from antiquity, were highly popular in the salons simply for their erotic appeal. Luncheon on the Grass<\/em> critiques this concept by showing a contemporary scene of a naked woman in a Parisian park accompanied by two fully clothed men in modern garb. Manet copies the poses of the figures from nude portraits from the Renaissance. The figures are lit by a very white, frontal light which flattens the canvas. Manet uses very obvious and harsh brush strokes which further distorts the scene. He also does not use perfect proportions or perspective. All these features in addition to his critical statement of the salons in this work are a complete rejection of the academic style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s lecture focused on art from the Impressionist movement. One artist in particular who stood out to me was Manet whose works often combined themes of Realism with the techniques of Impressionism. He also often included harsh critiques of French society in a number of his works to reaffirm his belief that art should be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18547,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}