tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post5622960671302253922..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: !00 paintings that shook the world!Stapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-26281529125887420102011-05-02T19:54:14.297-04:002011-05-02T19:54:14.297-04:00The best documentary I've ever seen on Impress...The best documentary I've ever seen on Impressionism. By the way, he talks about the model in Olympia, Victorine. She appears in quite a few of Manet's paintings.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/user/CollingsShrine#p/c/F08AC4E12B964CF9/0/7BSdUjWpN0Q<br /><br />2004 - Impressionism, Revenge of the Nice<br />Matthew Collings :: Impressionism, Revenge of the Nice (2004) Matthew Collings describes the revolutionary artists whose paintings shocked the art world. Courbet, Manet, Monet and Cezanne.Mark Henghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05872172199243865094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-27826119744932335622011-05-01T23:40:26.072-04:002011-05-01T23:40:26.072-04:00alotter;
The flat lighting and the immediacy of th...alotter;<br />The flat lighting and the immediacy of the unstylized figure is what makes it shocking it is as much a naked individual girl as it is a nude. It is more personal than the usual academic nude.<br />......................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-83968088877272094032011-05-01T23:38:52.048-04:002011-05-01T23:38:52.048-04:00Jim;
Evidentally she was a prostitute. Victorine s...Jim;<br />Evidentally she was a prostitute. Victorine sounds like a sour fruit made of white porcelain.<br />.................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-33968246459666247372011-05-01T23:36:38.295-04:002011-05-01T23:36:38.295-04:00Mike;
I think that the war between the academics a...Mike;<br />I think that the war between the academics and the impressionists was short lived and overhyped. Within a few very short years everybody had some impressionist chops.<br />.......................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-52438245259091207092011-05-01T22:25:16.119-04:002011-05-01T22:25:16.119-04:00Man, I just don't get it. Why is the less vol...Man, I just don't get it. Why is the less voluptuous nude more shocking? Coy and demure equals tantalizing? <br /><br />Thanks, Mike, for pointing out the cat, which being black, is very hard to make out. "Tabby" it isn't though.alotterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09700351186742512499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-37715466277878609252011-05-01T12:49:34.456-04:002011-05-01T12:49:34.456-04:00My understanding is that she is Victorine Meurent,...My understanding is that she is Victorine Meurent, see also Dejeuner Sur L’herbe. I heard she was a prostitute in art history in college. Subsequently, I learned that she also was a painter. (Hmmmm?) Go to Google Images search for victorine meurent Palm Sunday.jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12887980055366836778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-9544753003619689102011-05-01T11:06:33.515-04:002011-05-01T11:06:33.515-04:00I have a copy of the BBC miniseries ''The ...I have a copy of the BBC miniseries ''The Impressionists'' which I have watched numerous times, my main complaint being that it vastly oversimplifies the size of the group and who influenced them and who they influenced. That said, the miniseries depicts Manet as being one of the key influences of the group.<br /><br />In the miniseries, Manet was pretty much ''in your face'' with respect to the Salon and fought with it for years because it controlled who got to exhibit the ''serious'' work in Paris. You showed there, or you starved. Olympia may owe its origins to Titian and others, but if the Titian is a school marm relaxing on her day off, Olympia is strictly a ''working girl'' on her break. If she had been as demure as the young lady in the Titian, she would have used her other hand to hide the animal at the foot of the bed, too. You'd have to have just come out from under a rock to miss the message Manet was sending to the snobs at the Salon by including her Tabby in the painting.<br /><br />By the way, the word verification word to send this is ''cattie''. How weird is that?Mike Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15082719206861489635noreply@blogger.com