Is modernity to be greeted or opposed?
If you’d like to know more about visual representation in the modern period and how it has been used in revolutionary art movements like surrealism, come and see my lecture at Rodman Hall this Tuesday (January 29) at 7pm. It’s free! And it might be good prep for our evening of surrealism on March 5.
– Prof. Steer
Olympia? We’ll talk about this tonight in class, but Eduard Manet’s painting, Olympia, which caused such a stir in the 1865 Paris Salon, has been called the first work of modern art. Why? In a nutshell : she’s a naked lady who isn’t a goddess or heroine and she’s flat, “flat as a playing card,” according to Gustave Courbet, Manet’s fellow Realist painter.
Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863-65, oil on canvas, Musee d’Orsay, Paris.
– Prof. Steer
