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Manet's Lunch on the Grass
1863 "Lunch on the Grass" was originally named "Bath", which was composed by Qiao Erqiao at a country concert in the Louvre, but it was not an idyllic painting of Venice in16th century. The naked woman in the painting is the model in Moran's early painting Victor Lena Moran in a matador costume. She is a prostitute brought back from the street by Manet and has been a model for painters for a long time. The painter asked her to sit naked on the grass by the stream in the forest in this painting, keeping company with two well-dressed gentlemen (Ferdinand and Manet's brother-Eugene Manet); There is an overturned basket in the left foreground, and the food rolls out of the basket. In the background of lakes and marshes, there is a picture of a woman in a shirt, leaning over and standing in the water. This is an elaborate "picnic" and a bold experiment for the painter to seek color contrast. This composition annoyed many leading figures in the painting world. Around MANET's paintings, the critics are actually divided into two camps. The two sides fought hand to hand.
Several characters in the painting form an interlaced triangle, and the limbs of two men and naked women are intertwined, thus highlighting the significance of sex in this painting. Manet expressed this meaning very clearly. He regards Ferdinand's right hand, left hand and Victor Lina's left foot as the same color and texture, and puts Ferdinand's hand-drawn painting in the center, which is the top of an anatomical triangle. It has been pointed out that this is a traditional symbol of promiscuity between men and women, and Manet's name is already familiar in Coudre's studio. As a result, it hangs on the lips of almost every Parisian who cares about the exhibition.
Lunch on the Grass was exhibited at 1863 Loser Salon, and a painting caused a rare sensation in the world. He directly showed the secular environment, painted naked women and well-dressed gentlemen together, and made bold innovations in traditional painting, getting rid of the fine brushstrokes and a lot of tan tones in traditional painting and replacing them with bright, contrasting and almost flat generalized color blocks, all of which made. In the composition of this painting, the characters are placed in the same dense background with limited center depth, and the woman who bends down not far from the middle becomes the apex of the classical triangle composition composed of three characters in the foreground. In terms of techniques, the idea of taking painting as the second side has taken a step forward, and new attempts have appeared in the external light and dark background, so this painting is an innovation in artistic techniques and historical significance.
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Monet's Lunch on the Grass
Monet, 25, painted a 20-foot masterpiece "Lunch on the Grass" in Shey. At that time, Courbet was also painting in Sheyi, and he liked Monet very much. He often comes to see him and makes suggestions for the revision of Lunch on the Grass. After the painting was completed, Monet regretted following Courbet's advice and was dissatisfied with the work, so he decided not to send it to the salon for exhibition. When I left my house, I mortgaged the painting because I couldn't pay the rent. Unfortunately, this masterpiece was damaged by the damp house. This is a sketch. Judging from the theme and composition, this painting must be inspired by MANET's Lunch on the Grass, or it may be to compete with MANET.
This painting was done outdoors, so compared with MANET's Lunch on the Grass, it is really better in depicting the vividness of external light and the true nature of the landscape. The sunlight in the painting shines through the trees on the characters and the ground scenery, which is transparent and brilliant, making people feel relaxed and happy.
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Marx Ernst's lawn lunch
Ernst is the successor of two major movements spanning Dadaism and Surrealism. In him, there is also a cynical attitude of Dadaism denying everything and a subconscious expression of surrealism. His achievement lies not only in the introduction of "collage" in the picture, but also in the "rubbing method" he pioneered. Lithography is the best way for surrealism to express the subconscious. This technique was inspired by Ernst's discovery on the hotel floor in 1925. Ernst wrote in "Memoirs", "It's like an illusion between dreams and waking, and the wood grain on the floor becomes a dazzling image".
As we all know, Manet's Lunch on the Grass, written in 1863, has the pioneering significance of modern art, and this painting is Ernst's mockery of this classic work. Manet showed a naked woman and two men in clothes sitting in the Woods for a picnic, while Ernst replaced the woman with a fish and killed other characters. He also used "rubbings" to change the pastoral scenery in MANET's paintings into prickly places, and changed MANET's banquet into empty wine bottles. Fish often appears in surrealist art as a mysterious metaphor of the subconscious. Its fangs and shocking blue eyes are dangerous. The meaningless word on the left side of the picture is similar to the French word "obscenity"
And Monet and Renoir's Frog Pond.
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Monet's Grennet Yale;
1869, Renoir and Monet painted this water landscape named Frog Pond at the same time. The location is a small bath on the Seine River near Yale in the town of Gleno. This painting topic, because of the role of reflection in water in painting, is particularly conducive to expressing the pursuit of impressionist painters. In this painting, the treatment of the body and the distribution of light are traditional, and the characters are closely arranged and coordinated with the overall environment. This unity is accomplished by intermittent brushstrokes that express the reflection of water and light, and even the trees in the background participate in the light tremor. The flickering and trembling of such objects and characters add fantastic vitality to the whole picture.