Claude Monet quizz

Themes:
-change of nude
-changes our value system: what makes you question what you seem to take as accurate/correct
-throws away basic ideals
-domestication of outrageous and attempts to normalize outrageous
-no clothes on and engaging with viewer; suggestive painting
-white skin tone is unnatural
-viewer and object relationship changed up
-otium/arcadia
-contemporary dress and activities

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-Media: information/news/media directly able to identify players
-Maximilian executed by mexican guerrillas
-Allows for spectatorship

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-parisians become observer
-Flaneur: modern man who looked at crowds/takes on other personas; can gaze openly because no one knows who you are
-no formal center
-isolation w/ crowds

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-transportation: railroad is subject
-more people from outside coming into paris
-innocent young girl separated from new world

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-crowds
-people engaging with each other
-balloons have cheerful element
-active looking: given by POV of painting

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-mirror: as an illusion of reality; 2D surface showing 3D image; exactly what a painting does
-optical consumption: feet in corner, man/woman
-modern leisure w/ petit bourgeois

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-nude
-modernized/ updated venus of Urbino: white flesh tones; dirty skin; pose suggests business transaction
-open position, recline, gaze
-no longer goddess
-break from mold of the nude: no longer idealized

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-Leisure
-landscape: is subject
-optically engagement with outdoors: looking away from viewer; unusual
-water=reflective surface; transforms image to reflect in different way

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-Impressionist eye: color and primitive shading
-monet engages in sound/hearing using looser brush strokes for forms
-outdoors
-mimesis replaced w/ optical engagement

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-modern life: leisure activity
-clothing: allows blending of classes w/ rise of new bourgeoise; suggests time period ~1800
-impressionist eye: shading is crude in dress, ground, hat, umbrella, grade

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-optical consumption: checking each other out
-leisure activities
-impressionist eye: shading/perspective
-water tries to capture photography
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-Japanese prints engage w/ impressionism
-modern life
-not every detail depicted
-impressionist eye: looking and painting: tone/shading not present

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-modernity: transportation w/ bridge, train,
-spectator: sailboats, arcadia,

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-Impressionist eye: blobs of color, shading crude
-focus is on paint itself: out of tubes
-modernity: urban backdrop even if called “sunrise”
-not meant to be a timeless image; shows specific time
-optical response
-no horizon line abandons

Lazare
Artist: Monet

Themes:
-break to late monet
-modernity/industrialization: 2nd largest train station
-new way of seeing: fog obstructs view of building
-isolation in huge crowds
-no religion: pointed arch suggests church (new church); celebration of steel,

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-stormy effects at sea
-man is not in control; nature is
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-modern: bourgeousie, clothing
-“scientific approach” to depicting time of day
-examines “immaterial” rather than urban setting

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-relate material to immaterial (scientific experiment)
-no engagement with spirituality even though cathedral is painted
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-entirely man-made: modernization
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-forms and styles = abstraction
-negates impressionism: not a specific time; rather a series of times; not done quickly/instantaneously; done in the studio

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