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When I learned about Édouard Manet's "Olympia," the analysis focused on the parallel's to Titian's "Venus of Urbino" and the shocking nature of portraying a sex worker as the reclining nude. That was about it.

Being about to talk about Laure, the model for the maid, and the social commentary Manet is making by including a black model in this role, makes for such a fuller discussion I'm able to present to students today.

#arthistory #art #manet #realism #frenchart #edouardmanet #olympia

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Image: Under the heading "Gustave Courbet Grading Scale," one photo and five self-portrait paintings of 19th-century French Realist painter Gustave Courbet, arranged from joy to despair to represent letter grades A to F and "Incomplete."

CW: Eye contact with his famous "Le Désespéré" self-portrait, among others.

#gradingscale #frenchart #frenchartist #gustavecourbet

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Arnfinn Pettersen · @arnfinnp
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Claude Monet
French, 1840 – 1926
Ice Floes on the Seine at Bougival
1867/1868

@painting

#art #frenchart

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Mark Gray · @markgray92
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Attributed to J.B. Huet. But should it be?

#aquatint #18thcenturyart #frenchartist #frenchart

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Bonjour Mastonautes !

Tentative de peinture à la gouache, ce n'est pas très efficace...

#mastoart #mastoartist #gouache #gouachepainting #frenchart

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Caroline · @ontheriverrede
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Wintery scenes in Monet:

1) L'entrée de Giverny en hiver (1885).
2) Coucher de soleil sur la neige à Lavacourt (1881).
3) La pie (1868-9).
4) Le train dans la neige (1875).

#claudemonet #art #frenchart #snow #winter #ice #impressionistArt

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Voltaire, reading his own book (La Henriade) and looking most dandy.

Portrait by Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1735).

#voltaire #portrait #art #frenchart #frenchliterature

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