ARTHI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pollice Verso (Gérôme), Alexandre Cabanel, Gustave Courbet
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Impressionism, independent art makers (lecture continued from wednesday) More social classes more people able to purchase art. Haute (higher) bourgeoisie, petite (high) bourgeoisie upper class. Juste-milieu: the middle way , trying to please everyone, official tendency of the july. Thumbs down means someone is getting killed not neoclassical, not didactic, even though alluding to ancient time. Process invented in 1796 by alois senefelder. Caricature (iconic of lithographies; humorous, derogatory) of people who have never seen art before. Pointed head to mock philippe"s nickname pear . Pear meant something that was soft and rotten. Daumier, rue transnonain, 15 april 1834, july 1834. Soldiers invaded a suspected apartment, killed entire family; accused of sniping someone of the royal family. Only few months difference from event and publication. June days : proletarian uprising of the working class vs. bourgeoisie. Ernst meissonier, memory of civil war, 1848. Factors leading to 1848 revolution (and new kind of art)
