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This 6 page paper examines two artistic giants of
Impressionism and post-Impressionism, Claude Monet
(Woman with a Parasol) and Vincent van Gogh (The
Starry Night). Paintings are discussed for
comparisons and contrasts of style and techniques
of the two artists.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BBmonvG.doc
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propriety;" in other words visual art of this period was to be presented in a prescribed way and of an appropriate subject matter. The artwork itself, with historically prescribed
techniques was to contain an uplifting goals or moral message for the viewer - none of the grim honesty of the real world, thank you very much. Art
was to inspire and encourage. Having ones work in a Salon show would almost guarantee financial success. If the work did not meet the standards of
the established as viewed through the Salon, the artist was deemed unacceptable, probably both for his work and for himself. But as times always do, ideas changed, and artists began
portraying more realistic subject matter. These images were controlled, yet contained dramatic and symbolic elements which had an intellectual as well as a visual component. This was the
beginning of the artistic movement labeled modernism. In the Salon of 1850-51, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) exhibited Stonebreakers, openly declaring that his socialist ideals affirmed his subject matter, and had
as much to so with his interest in "real and existing things" as with politics. He was criticized for deliberately adopting a "cult of ugliness and for attacking the
social standards"(Cole 238). In 1863 Edouard Manet (1832-1883) participated in the famous Salon des Refuses, an exhibition of works rejected by the official Salon. As the leader of
these painting non-conformists, Manet wanted to rethink established themes in modern terms. In the case of the nude, Olympia (1863) the Salon was outraged against an image that they
thought was "sexually explicit, socially provocative, and stylistically antithetical to accepted standards of modeling and composition" (Cole 240). While all this was going on in the city, Claude Monet
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