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MANET: DESIRES OF THE PASSING MOMENT

… and beauty of the eternal. Is love pleasure or desire? The Good, the Bad and those eternal constants. Edouard Manet, proved that he was an observer of a world in constant flux. Through  the initial reaction to  ”Olympia”, idealism … Continue reading

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MANET & MORISOT: AMBIGUITY BETWEEN PLEASURE AND DESIRE

“For Realist painters at mid-century, the experience of the senses was not something to be allegorized. It was something to be given to the viewer full-on. Such a statement became a philosophical position. It was part of the materialist view of the world … Continue reading

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REAL IMPRESSIONS: NOBLESSE OBLIGE LESS

In contrast with Post-Impressionism and the avant-garde trends of the twentieth century the painters of French Naturalism and Impressionism rarely gave verbal expression to their aesthetics. “The most solid base for the work of art is reality constantly studied.” ( … Continue reading

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