Paris: Day 4
June 14, 2022
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Above: Homage to Delacroix, by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1864. Nine who respected the work of Delacroix, such as Liberty Leads the People in the Louvre.
Fantin Latour (white shirt), poet Charles Baudelaire (lower right), painter James MacNeill Whistler (left of frame), painter Édouard Manet (right of frame).
1 to 3 show one of two giant clocks on the 5th floor in the Musée d'Orsay, looking out over Paris, the Montmartre area in the centre.
Artwork inside Musée d'Orsay ...
... 4 and 5 Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon in the Grass), by Édouard Manet, 1862. Manet was not an impressionist, but they liked his willingness to
go against convention. Nudity was accepted for historical, religious or mythical paintings, but a lady sitting naked with two clothed men,
now that was scandalous and just not done.
... 6 Madeleine in the Bois d'Amour, by Émile Bernard, 1888. The painter's younger sister posed while on a trip here to Pont-Aven.
... 7 Breton Boy in Profile, by Roderic O'Conor, 1893. The Irish painter visiting Pont-Aven.
... 8 The Starry Night, by Vincent van Gogh, 1888. Working by candlelight, van Gogh painted Arles with gas lamps shimmering across the water.
... 9 Vairumati, by Paul Gaugin, 1897. On his second Tahiti trip, he paints the Maori myth of Vairumati, young mortal who married the God of Creation.
... 10 Self-Portrait with The Yellow Christ, by Paul Gauguin, 1890-1891. Gauguin equates his suffering as an artist to that of Christ.
... 11 Arearea (Joys), by Paul Gaugin, 1892. On his first trip to Tahiti, he paints an ideal view of Maori life, his fantasy of the perfect life in paradise.
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