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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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Tagged Ann Higonnet, Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Charles Baudelaire, Daniel Rosenfeld, David Halperin, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, George Heard Hamilton, George Moore, Henri Matisse, John Rewald, Lin Arison, Lisa MacDonald, Michel Foucault, Nancy Locke, Neil Folberg, Paul Alexis, Paul Valery, Shane Adler Davis, Suzanne Leenhoff, Tim Marlow, Victorine Meurent
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REAL IMPRESSIONS: NOBLESSE OBLIGE LESS
In contrast with Post-Impressionism and the avant-garde trends of the twentieth century the painters of French Naturalism and Impressionism rarely gave verbal expression to their aesthetics. “The most solid base for the work of art is reality constantly studied.” ( … Continue reading
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Tagged Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Beth Archer Brombert, Camille Mauclair, Camille Pissarro, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Frédéric Bazille, George Heard Hamilton, George T. Noszlopy, Gustave Caillebotte, Gustave Courbet, Gustave Flaubert, Gustave Moreau, Julie Lorenzen, Kate Flint, Manet Olympia, Marcelin Desboutin, Monty English, Pater the Dutchman, Philbert Louis Debucourt, Stephane Mallarme, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, Victorine Meurent
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BEHIND THE NONCOMMITTAL GAZE
Who else? Who but the well bred, courteous Edouard Manet could have put before an astonished public the “female gorilla”, that “gamy courtesan” Olympia? Public and critics were for once unanimous. There could be no two ways about it: Manet … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Antonin Proust, Auguste Renoir, Berte Morisot, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Julie Lorenzen, Mallarme, Manet Olympia, Rembrandt, Stephane Mallarme, Titian, Titian Venus of Urbino, Victorine Meurent
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