Her body is starkly lit and she stares directly at the viewer. The two men, dressed as young dandies, seem to be engaged in conversation, ignoring the woman. In front of them, the woman's clothes, a basket of fruit, and a round loaf of bread are displayed, as in a still life. In the background, a lightly clad woman bathes in a stream.
Too large in comparison with the figures in the foreground, she seems to float above them. The roughly painted background lacks depth, giving the viewer the impression that the scene is not taking place outdoors, but in a studio. This impression is reinforced by the use of broad "studio" light, which casts almost no shadows. The man on the right wears a flat hat with a tassel, a kind normally worn indoors.
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Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Byron's Muse with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Create a free website or blog at WordPress. Follow Following. This, and the contemporary dress, rendered the strange and almost unreal scene obscene in the eyes of the public of the day. Manet himself jokingly nicknamed his painting "la partie carree". Manet displayed the painting instead at the Salon des Refuses, an alternative salon established by those who had been refused entry to the official one.
Like his friend Courbet, Manet influenced modern painting not only by his use of realistic subject matter but also by his challenge to the three-dimensional perspectivalism established in Renaissance painting. Manet painted figures with a flatness derived partly from Japanese art and resembling as Gustave Courbet commented the flatness of the king or queen on a playing card.
Manet was not alone in being snubbed that year—the stingy salon rejected so many artists that Napoleon III created an exhibition for this outcast art. With its unconventional representation of nudity, the artwork became this subversive salon's main attraction. But that doesn't mean it was beloved.
It's said men scooted their wives past the piece as quickly as possible, then doubled back to gawk. Mostly, Manet's work drew laughter and sneers. The public was scandalized. Nude women had long been the subjects of classical art, but those were generally women meant to represent the divine. In Manet's Luncheon on the Grass , the women were not goddesses.
One's shed clothes are clearly visible in the lower left corner. And the men in contemporary garb underline Manet's intention of showing modern, real people in place of fantastical or classical figures. These details made the painting feel sexual in a way classical works did not. This collision led critics and the public to call the piece obscene.
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