HISTART 180C Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Wax Sculpture, Edgar Degas, Monotyping
26 Oct 2016
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Manet dies in 1883: self-reckoning about the project of impressionism and whether or not it was sustainable, merits of plein-air painting vs. urban depictions. People are leaving paris and the urban spectacle of modernity. Painters call into doubt the phenomenon of the immediacy of looking and its. Increase in separate individual painterly projects translation into painting: renoir: light plays too great a part outdoors; you have no time to work out the composition; you can"t see what you are doing . The light makes it hard to see. Degas, at the ambassadors, 1877: a seeking out of a novelty in painting that is bound up in the notion of modern, popular entertainment, vulgarity and extremity. Degas, women on the terrace of a caf , 1877. Degas, cassatt at the louvre, 1880: interest in a women who is smart and powerful, respect for female autonomy, intelligence, and power in the figure of. Cassatt, while simultaneously acknowledging the anomaly of her existence.
