ARH 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Impressionism, Cyclops, Discrimination Based On Skin Color
28 Apr 2016
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Cyclops: by raphael and by carracci who drew the same theme earlier, brushwork and colorism are different and narrative moment is different. Carracci depicts the cyclops about to hurl boulder: redon shows it during a moment of love. Rousseau: very tight brushwork we will see and he paints jungle scenes, he looks to be floating and the hard cloud contours are all innovative, the french academy would have hated this. Sleeping gypsy: her jacket represents joseph and his technicolored coat = biblical reference, strange eroticism from the lion, land water land and sky format like eye balloon by redon. The dream: continued use of tight controlled brushwork with polished finish = very different from impressionists and neo and post impressionists handling of paint. 3: imaginative setting of reclining nude on a couch in a jungle, like olympia by manet but not criticizing the upper class. Rousseau is just painting eroticism to explore the concept.
