HONR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Paris Street; Rainy Day, Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas
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Perspective: from front (coming at the viewer), glimpse, slice of life, instantaneous. Haussmann"s paris needed a massive canvas, subject matter is impressionist, not execution. Different classes meeting, diversity, but not a lot of interaction, urban (no eye contact) The beach at sainte adresse by claude monet. Unfinishedness of haussmann"s paris, wide of steam engine: symbol of modernity) Subject: nature, black sails (fishing boats), hotel to accommodate influx of tourists, increased. Dressed as a flaneur: custom-made suit, silk top hat, rich man of leisure, takes in life around him and gets ideas for art, observes and absorbs (people-watcher) Showing critics that he isn"t an animal (doesn"t paint with tongue) Fluidity of objects rather than defined details (radical) Policed on streets, looked at and commented at. Invested more on right bank of sienne river (merchants) Impressionist subject matter but not execution, outdoors as opposed to indoors,
