Art During The 1800s

Art during the 1800s represented reality and detail. Artists were concerned with the fine finishing and details of the subjects they painted. Salons had conservative juries who screened and approved artwork that could be displayed for the public. In Paris, artists like Édouard Manet and Claude Monet would begin to challenge the status quo of art during the1860s. They influenced art in a movement that would be called impressionism. Impressionist wanted to capture the changes in the atmosphere, the passing of time and changes in the weather in their masterpieces. Édouard Manet was born into an upper-middle class Parisian family. Manet joined a drawing class at the Rollin School at thirteen and six years later enrolled in Thomas Couture’s studio. Pupils were encouraged to explore their own artistic expression from Couture even though he was a traditional painter who was accepted by the Salons.1 Manet thought art should represent modern life, not mythology or history. He wanted to be successful at the Salons, but based on his own guidelines of what was art. Manet would create masterpieces that were heavily criticized by the Salons. …show more content…
The painting was named Luncheon on the Grass, or by its French name Le Dèjeuner sur l’Herbe. Manet had been inspired by Raphael’s Judgment of Paris, but Manet’s inspiration was considered too bold.2 Manet’s work had innovative, looser painting style which included a brighter palette than that of other artists of the 1860s. Manet used broad, visible stokes and distorted the sense of space in the painting. Manet’s painting techniques were intentionally non-traditional. Manet painted en plein air which captured “atmosphere and light as one