7/7/13
Christopher Craddock
ARH 2000: Art Appreciation: Appreciating the ARTS
Professor Dorotha Lemeh
Word count: 227
Blog Entry #3
Describing “ Luncheon on the Grass“ viewed in class
(1863)
By: Edouard Manet
This
painting by Manet portrays within itself several feelings that come alive when
we look at it. From the soft yet dark colors used in the painting for the
background create this scene where two men and a women sit and have a picnic.
The way Manet has left the women naked and facing the viewer pulls your eye
towards her eyes and explains how she may feel exposed. The direction of the
eyes in which the men are looking towards, for example the man who’s hand is
raised pointing towards the women yet his eyes looking at the man and the man
in the back almost facing in a direction not towards the viewer or at the other
man himself yet looking into the distance as if there is something in the
forest Manet has chosen no to reveal. This creates a triangle between the faces
of the three. Even the women in the background who is clothed and how she seems
to be reaching towards the ground portrays a feeling that she is sad, or has a
feeling of remorse.
I can interpret this
painting, describe it, and evaluate it to my point of view yet as a critic of
this painting I am not the artist who cannot be spoken for, leaving my
interpretation of this painting possibly incorrect yet still a valid
explanation.
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