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MANET: DESIRES OF THE PASSING MOMENT

… and beauty of the eternal. Is love pleasure or desire? The Good, the Bad and those eternal constants. Edouard Manet, proved that he was an observer of a world in constant flux. Through  the initial reaction to  ”Olympia”, idealism … Continue reading

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MANET & MORISOT: AMBIGUITY BETWEEN PLEASURE AND DESIRE

“For Realist painters at mid-century, the experience of the senses was not something to be allegorized. It was something to be given to the viewer full-on. Such a statement became a philosophical position. It was part of the materialist view of the world … Continue reading

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