Comparison/Contrast

Pre-Raphaelite/Aestheticism Movement vs. early Modern Manet

Learning Objective

• Students will COMPARE art/characters in order to DEFINE modernity.

Having read Baudelaire and seen some paintings and read DG (5 chapters)

• Who is the “real” modern person inDG?How do you know? Go to the text and write

down a few quotations and give specifics.

Pre-Exercise

• Write a definition of modernism as you understand it now:

“Luncheon in the Grass” (1863) – Eduard Manet (not Monet)

“La Pieta”-Dante GabrielRossetti (1874)

Salon De Refuses

• French (taken over by the French Academy) “accepted” paintings that were traditional in subject matter, usually pertaining to history,religion or myth

• Napoleon III famously allowed “rejected” painters to show their work in an annex of the gallery. This was called the Salon De Refuses.Many artists you will see in the next few months first exhibited here.