Claude Monet
Impression - Sunrise, 1872
48 x 63 cm, oil on canvas
Édouard Manet
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon in the Grass) - 1863
208 × 264 cm, oil on canvas
Édouard Manet
Olympia - 1863
130.5 × 190 cm, oil on canvas
Gustave Courbét
Burial At Ornans - 1849/50
315 × 660 cm, oil on canvas
Gustave Courbét
The Stone Breakers - 1850
165 × 257 cm, oil on canvas
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Stone breakers
Dirty clothes
Low in social status
Not a lucre job
Burial at ornans
Jesus on cross at the back
Some sort of service
Children
A dog
Some people dressed better than others
Olympia
Nude lady
Dark skin next to her holding flowers
Nude lady showing no acknowledgement to other lady
Cat at end of bed
Black lady is slave
Wearing thongs but nothing else
Sitting on a couch/bed
Lady is a prostitute
CLAUDIA
Stone breakers:
Two men
Torn clothes
Digging equipment
Manual labour
Landscape
Long grass
Boy & man
Collecting stone
Poor
Burial at ornans:
Crucification on pole
Sunset
Dog
Life sized people
Grave
Noble looking clothing, dark
Home town
Some dressed better than others
Walking past a grave
Casket
Pall bearers
Olympia:
Naked person
Servant/maid
Bed
Pillows
Cat
Shoes
Flower in her hair
Flowers with servant
Naked lady acknowledging audience, not maid
Robe underneath her
Prostitute
Olympia, head goddess
Criticising the current society
Hypocrisy
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe:
Naked person
Bread and grapes
Dress
Clothed men
Lady in background in water
Trees
Apple
Basket
Hat
Relaxed positions
Man with cane
Men with beards
Water flask
Boat
River
Leaves
Impression – sunrise:
About the current time, not gods
Rouen Cathedral:
Time of day vs light
By Carissa
Realism to Impressionism
Broadening the idea and concept of art and how it is more than social status
The Stone Breakers
Oil on canvas
1850
Gustave Courbét
A clear contrast of the dark and bright colours of the painting
The male figures are breaking down, stone collecting them and placing them in baskets
The clothing and the work carried out by these men indicate they are poor
Issue/recognition of the social scale
Art should be relevant to everyone and should not be based upon the status of people
One male is older and taller than the other male
Burial At Ornans
Oil on canvas
1849/50
Gustave Courbét
There is a gathering of people in relation to a funeral (Catholic)
The people are all wearing black clothing and others are wearing more expensively than others
The deceased is assumed to be underneath the white cloth which had a black symbol of death
Location of the funeral is on assumed cliff/hill (the artist's home village)
Olympia
Édouard Manet
1863
Oil on canvas
A naked woman laid on some sort of bed facing the audience/artist with a black woman holding flowers while facing the naked woman
There is a hidden black cat
We are to assume the black woman holding the flowers is the naked woman's maid
The naked woman is wearing shoes
There is a robe or blanket (assumed to be her clothing) that the naked woman is sitting on
The naked woman is a prostitute/portrayed context or idea of a prostitute
Painting of a prostitute yet the name of the artwork is after a Greek goddess
Idea of hypocrisy and make a social commentary/criticism of the culture at time
Luncheon in the Grass
Édouard Manet
1863
Oil on canvas
There is a naked woman sitting in the grass with two clothed men and there is also a another woman who is supposedly bathing herself in the lake
The men seem to be wearing posh clothing suggesting that these people are wealthy
Naked woman's clothing is on the side which implies that she took off her clothing, reason is unknown
Boat in the back
The setting of the painting is in a closed off forest area
Sun is shining through the trees
One of the men are holding a cane
The brighter colours are more visible in the naked and semi-naked ladies while the rest of the picture seems dark
There is a frog in the bottom left corner
Behind the boat there is a small waterfall
The proportion of the woman in the lake is different compared to the people in the front
Some of the areas are detailed whereas the other parts of the painting are less detailed, leaving the assumption of the painting not being finished
The naked woman is not mythological
Impression-Sunrise
Claude Monet
Oil on canvas
Impressionism
1872
It is not a detailed painting yet just an impression
Art is more of the modern world and that art should be evolved around everyday life and things in the world
Rouen Cathedral
Some of these images are tilted
1892-1894
All the pictures are different through lighting and colour (based on the time of day)
Claude Monet
The cathedral is a focal point
The subject matter of these paintings is light and colour, how it changes durning the day based on time
LUCY PARK
Realism and Impressionism.
The stone breakers
One man on his knees while trying to break some stones as the otHer man standing up moving the stones. The one standing up is a young boy maybe 10-15 years of age
-old dirty clothes
-there not rich
-there far down on the social status.
-this is not a lucrative job
Burial at ornans
-A crucifixion of a man on a staff.
-catholic
-dog
-black clothing
-a blue/white cloth with and black symbol on it (the symbol is the symbol of dead) underneath the sheet is the dead person.
-pall bearers.
-grave digger
-lady's and men of the town passing through
olympia
-1863
-nude lady on a bed
-black woman behind her holding flowers she's her maid
-there's a black cat at the end of the bed
-the nude lady is in slippers
-the nude lady isn't paying attention to the maid but to the audience
-she's laying on a robe
-she has a choker around her neck
-she's a prostitute.
-the prostitute is named after a goddess
-it's a criticism of the culture at the time.
Rouen cathedral
-painting from his window
-painted with more or less detail
- painted at different times of day
- hey would paint for 1/2 to 1 hour then have a break and start a new painting.
-almost identical angle
-the subject matter of these paintings is light and colour
Art theory - 1800s
French artists
The stone breakers by Gustave Courbet
There's two men, one with a rock (who is a child) and the other with a pick axe.
Dull colours. Old dirty cloths - not rich. Bottom of the social scale.
Breaking and collecting stones. The rocks are used for roads.
Difficult, hard job.
First artworks about the reality of the bottom class poor people, art was to inspire you, be pretty to look at, not people doing work.
Gustave Courbet made the term realism, more popular and known.
Burial at Ornans by Gustave Courbet
Lots of people (1800s), middle class, priests, a dog, children, and there's a man holding a Jesus on the cross on a stick. Dark colours.
It's of the town that he is from - Ornans.
Holding a coffin with a dead person in it, going to be buried in the hole.
Holding ropes around their necks to lower the coffin.
French art history
- salon was a annual exhibition
- the works were packed in lots and lots of art, had to make your art stand out
- the bigger the size of the artwork the more important the subject matter
- the burial at Ornans doesn't look that important but it's 3x6m big
- was accepted into the salon because he was famous, and people thought that it shouldn't be there.
- was it go against society, it was offensive
Realism - Gustave Courbet pushed it.
It was shocking at the time.
Olympia by Edouardo Manet
There a nude lady on a bed who is French, and an black servant. There's a black cat. Servant is holding a bouquet.
She is wearing a chocker.
She's a prostitute
Olympia is a Greek goddess. Princess of the God of war.
Manet is trying to show the double standard.
Realism - hypocrites
Le Dejeuner sur by Edouardo Manet
They are having lunch on the grass. There are two men with a naked lady. In the background there is a lady with clothes on in a river. The clothes of the lady is next to her with food. Dark colours of the forest, they are having a picnic. There's a boat in the background, one of the men is holding a cane. Wealthy clothes, interesting hats, food everywhere. There's is trees and grass. Dead leaves on the ground. There's a frog. She looks comfy.
Contrast between the trees and the people: light and dark, clear and undefined.
Eyes are first draw to the lady, she is looking right at you.
The girl in the back is huge, compared to the boat and the distance. The trees are really small as well.
Looks like he didn't finish the background.
He doesn't hide the naked woman with mythology.
Same model, in the luncheon and Olympia
The meaning of the artwork is about art and the hypocrisy (one of the first to do that)
The point of the frog is slang for prostitute
Impression Sunrise by Claude Monet
No detail, beginning of impression.
This is not acceptable as art. You paint in a studio, not outside.
Paint tubes were invented so now painting is portable.
Need to be quick. Outside changes.
Cameras ruined the need for portraits that were painted.
Everyday life - shocking.
Art should be about our world, to show what our life is like not Ancient Greek mythology.
Emma
Art theory: Realism to Impressionism
Luncheon in the grass by Edouard Manet
Naked woman with two men. One man looks like he is wearing a Jewish prayer cap? Another woman is in the lake behind- she is clothed. She is made to stand out painted in great detail against the undefined background.
Boat in the background. Set in a forest. Basket of neglected food. Man holding a cane. Woman's clothes are in the left bottom corner. Man to the right is pointing. Trees in the background. Sitting on grass. Dead leaves on floor. Frog in bottom left corner. The woman in front is looking straight at the viewer. Girl is too big in the background, bigger than the boat- bad proportioning (intended?)
Unacceptable- painting ordinary woman naked, not a god or goddess.
University aged men (shown by clothing), middle class.
Impression- sunrise by Claude Monet 1872
To make oil paint- go to chemist and purchase chemicals + oil then taken back to their studio.
Quicker time to paint.
In 1800:
Paint tubes invented. Portrait paintings were popular. Cameras and photography invented. Painters had to come up with new things to do- more about how art was made. Impressionists: focused on everyday life - our world, not Ancient Greek mythology. Of the modern world (trains, buildings, people in a park)- shocking to the time. First artists to paint outside the studio/building. First artists to say that it's ok for paintings to look like they've been painted.
Claude Monet, Rouen cathedral, 1892-94
The light changes in each, building them up. Main focus was not the cathedral, but the light. Science influenced by the theory of light reflection (the only way to see things). First artist to move away from creating illusion. Make art about anything. Break down what art should be about. Today Impressionism is most popular form of art
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