The modernist era was not just a revolution in art, but rather a whole social, economic, and cultural movement away from the previous era. As a result, Parisian society and the growing disparate classes meant that Manet's painting is capture both the decadent and the "now," the sense of immediacy that was occurring within the city. The depiction of in his masked ball for instance, depicts the rising "shift" within city life, no longer is everything and everyone stationary and domestic, but always on the move, with people passing by each other without a clue to their actual identity. The indistinct nature of the masses is Manet's theme, he looks at the clash between traditional depictions of French upper class, and compares it with the "mobile population" of Paris's underground as urban leisure has created Paris as not a cohesive image, but a series of constantly changing actions and people, represented by the steady migration of people in and out of the city. Manet's look at Paris in its "invisible population" attempts to capture the disparity between class divisions at the time. Industrialization and the modern revolution of the world has taken the emphasis away from the rich, and turned the thrust of social power and mobility to the transient masses. Life in Paris as it were, just does not add up, because its cultural identity...
This new wave of mobile population shifts creates the allure of class division and re-emphasis on urban leisure for modernist artists. Another painting that is heavily discussed is Manet's "Olympia" is a depiction of a nude prostitute. The conflict and class division within this painting is the artist style in contrast to the theme. Manet paints the prostitute as he would in an aggrandizing style rather than a demeaning one, glorifying the prostitute to the stature of nobility. Clark explains that Manet's painting explicitly creates class tension, because it treats the prostitute as a "courtesan." Men within this era are socially accepting of courtesans because they are viewed as the entertainment of the social elite, but prostitution was taboo within the societal standards of the rich. Manet shows the prostitute as a part of the growing decadence of the times, as a reflection of the urban leisure that contrasts within traditional viewpoints. Manet's painting therefore blurs the existing lines between the "safe margin" of society and the grey area of lower class acceptability. It is the clash of class, body and social identity that makes this painting so provocative of the class division and emerging emphasis on artistic expressionism in the…
Rise of the Narrative Are we returning to a narrative in history? Yes. But now it is a narrative impacted by the numbers of the technology of the information age, which is a different type of impact tha the guardians of the past saw coming. There is little question but that narrative has again begun to find a place in documenting and shaping the substance of history. Few people believe that numbers,
Tarsila Do Amaral One of the most important Brazilian artists of the 20th century, Tarsila do Amaral, was born in Sao Paulo in 1886. She had a privileged childhood as the grandchild of a rich farmer. This brought with it various advantages, including an education that taught her to read, write, embroider and speak French (Damian, 1999). Finishing her studies in France and returning to Brazil, this artist left an impression
This work provided an intensive discussion historical forces that were to lead to modern humanism but also succeeds in placing these aspects into the context of the larger social, historical and political milieu. . Online sources and databases proved to be a valid and often insightful recourse area for this topic. Of particular note is a concise and well-written article by Stephen Weldon entitled Secular Humanism in the United States.
93)." That the post modernists rejected the psychotherapy of the modernist era is by no means suggestive that the artists of the era have escaped psychological analysis. Because of the extreme nature of the pop culture, it has presented a psychological windfall for study in excessiveness. It is represented by an excess of economic affluence, drugs, sex, and expressions of behavior. The excessiveness is found not just in the music
arts in the modern era in India. The discussion would revolve around the conditions and the situations that led to the so-called modernization of the Indian art form and the relation of the socio-economic changes in the Indian society and its impact on Indian art transformation or modernization. The discussions in the essay would revolve around this topic. The India in the 21st century is a representation of a society
Claude Monet is widely recognized as one of the towering figures of art world. His paintings of haystacks and the gardens at Giverny continue to attract visitors to museums all over the world. Both the subjects of his paintings and his techniques are the dominant representations of the Impressionist movement. This paper is a biographical essay of Claude Monet. The first part of the paper looks at Monet's biography, including his
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