ARTH 339 Lecture 17: Thu Mar 9
Document Summary
Monet: face value, without criticality, do unproblematic landscapes that do not allow us to zero in on critical issues. Impressionists popular because not focusing on working class poverty, labour, commodified love and sex. Aftermath of commune, 2000 people dead in paris, bodies laid out. Issues around class and labour following the suppression of the commune in may of. Courbet was in exile and was fined huge. Takes viewers again and again to places of leisure. Encouraged to look at the mobility and transient of light, doesn"t problematize for us, impression of middle class leisure, well dressed individuals getting settled in the boat. Exbihited with the independent artists outside the academy/salon. Different, not using independent touches of pigment, actually models figures; but uses other factors to render modern life. Foregrounds labour, class, hot summer day, labourers finishing floor in an interior, sticky/uncomfortable work didn"t need to make works that sell.
