Week 4- Baudelaire and Manet Flashcards
Name some women impressionists.*
Mary Cassatt,
Who redesigned the streets of Paris?
Haussmann
Who were the impressionists?
An independent group in Paris 19th century, where men and woman worked equally. Egalitarians
What does Van Gogh’s Starry Night represent?
Painting is about memory and place. ( not about his mental stability)
What does Van Gogh’s potato eaters represent/ when was it painted?*
Represents cramped, domestic interior of agricultural life. 1885
Painting about work, people after they’ve returned from the field.
Representation of a particular class.
Pheasants symbolise a better way of life.
How was Van Gogh’s Potato Eaters painted? (2)
It was intended to emphasise peasants coarseness, e.g hands the brushstroke left obvious
Uses irregular synthesis of several viewpoints in creating space.
What is phenomenological space? (Relates to Van Gogh’s potato eaters)
Space as it is experienced and remembered.
How is Manets Olympia so different in painting a woman? (4)
She is aware of her nakedness.
Intentionally covering herself up.
Guarded facial expressions.
Harsh and linear, upright position.
What did Manets Olympia make people do?
Made people question the woman’s class. Was she a nude/woman/prostitute?
What did the flatness of modernist art do according to Clark?
Created a barrier that stopped people escaping into a painting from social life.
Who called for painters to take up the challenge of the heroism of modern life?
Baudelaire.
T.J. Clark identifies a specific formal quality in Manet’s paintings that stands for the new forms of life in the modern city. It is…
Flatness
Clark’s argument for his reading of The Bar at the Folies Bergère (1882) is based on the evidence he gleans for a reading of Olympia (1863) using the critics’ writings. What does he glean from those critics that is central to his argument?
The critics could not make the signifiers add up to a reading
Van Gogh’s Potato Eaters was considered a failure in 1885. Which explanation is advanced by Pollock and Orton in their analysis of the painting’s effects?
Revealed effects of capitalism in the countryside.
So the painting could not be accommodated to academic or naturalist conventions for managing the image of the rural working poor, as it was too revealing.
What was a characteristic of Van Gogh’s paintings of his dwellings from country to city?
The use of multiple points of view that produce a phenomenological sense of lived.
