ARTH 3419 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hot Air Balloon, Binoculars, Paul Gauguin
30 Aug 2016
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City of life and a city of dreams. Paris is the city of the future. Thousands would attend this fair in paris. Amazon (lady on horseback) = a proper lady does not find herself alone on horseback without a male escort. The fact that there"s a lady alone on horseback speaks to the modernity and how we"ve cast away conservative conditions and she speaks of the new. Binoculars are featured in the painting which is a new device. There"s a balloon up in the air and the men looking out are looking at the hot air balloon. Nader and his wife in his studio pretending they are in a hot air balloon reference. Art revolved around the city of paris. Hat being blown off in surprise and excitement. Doesn"t focus on the leading figures up front, they are distracted as we are distracted by the movements that are about them.
