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Manet: Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe |
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| French Impressionist painter Édouard Manet shocked art audiences in Paris with Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass; 1863, Musée d'Orsay, Paris), which depicts a nude woman at a woodland picnic. The woman appears to be neither a Classical figure nor an allegorical figure and, to emphasize her nakedness, Manet not only shows that she has recently disrobed (by painting her clothes in a heap nearby), but also depicts her male companions fully clothed. In addition, the woman stares directly and unabashedly at the viewer, making us feel almost like voyeurs as we gaze back. Manet's painting style—the flat figures, which look almost like cutouts, and loose brushwork—also bewildered and antagonized art critics of his time. Manet claimed that the real subject of the painting was light, and it was that philosophy that gave birth to Impressionism. | ||||||
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