“Édouard Manet” Online Lecture Now Available

Hello!

I’m excited to announce that my new online lecture is now available on CLASSU!

This newly released lecture is the third installment of Season 2 of “The Great and Immortal Painters’ Stories”, and it features the artist Édouard Manet.

Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter, one of the first great modern artists of the 19th century, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His early masterworks, “The Luncheon on the Grass” and “Olympia”, caused great controversy with both critics and the Academy of Fine Arts, but soon were praised by progressive artists as the breakthrough acts to the new style, Impressionism. These works, along with others, are considered watershed paintings that mark the start of modern art.

In this lecture, I explore Manet’s life and works, introduce films featuring Manet, and recommend music to enhance the visual experience of his art. The course includes a visual appreciation of 132 works by Manet, accompanied by the recommended music.

Here are the details of the course:

Title: The Great and Immortal Painters’ Stories: Édouard Manet

Preview

• Duration: 00:01:18
• Content:
1. Profile

Lecture 1

• Duration: 00:15:26
• Content:
1. Profile
2. Life (Chronologically)

Lecture 2

• Duration: 00:12:42
• Content:
1. Artwork Commentary
2. Introduction to Films featuring Manet
3. Music Recommendations for Appreciating Manet’s Work

Lecture 3

• Duration: 00:33:40
• Content:
1. Appreciation of 132 Works by Manet

 

By visiting the link below, you can find more detailed information and receive a discount when you register for the course:

https://classu.co.kr/me/19190

You can also find my previous lectures at the following links:

 

The Great and Immortal Painters’ Stories: Marc Chagall
https://www.classu.co.kr/class/classDetail/1018890

 

The Great and Immortal Painters’ Stories: Henri Matisse
https://classu.co.kr/me/18627

 

The Great and Immortal Painters’ Stories: Season 1
https://me2.do/GlmZycoS

 

Interesting Art Stories

https://me2.do/5AfeMi6N

 

Thank you.

 

Interesting Art Stories: 46. Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, ACJ Art Academy

 

How are you?

Currently, I am introducing the stories about various artists and their paintings with the title “Interesting Art Stories”.

The 46th story is “Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper.

Edward Hopper

“Nighthawks” is an oil painting painted in 1942 by Edward Hopper, an American realist painter. It portrays people in a downtown diner late at night as seen through the large glass window of the diner, and the light coming from the diner illuminates the dark and deserted city street.

The painting, which is Hopper's most famous painting as well as one of the most famous paintings in American art, was purchased by the Art Institute of Chicago on May 13, 1942, a few months after the painting was completed.

Art Institute of Chicago

It has been suggested that the painting was inspired by Ernest Hemingway's short story, either "The Killers" or "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.” 

Ernest Hemingway

Some art historians have suggested that the painting may have been inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s “Café Terrace at Night”, which was exhibited in a gallery that Hopper visited frequently at same time he painted this painting.

Café Terrace at Night, Vincent van Gogh
(1888)

Responding to the question for loneliness and emptiness in this painting, Hopper said, "I didn't see it as particularly lonely, but unconsciously, I was painting the loneliness of a large city.”

In this painting, Edward Hopper posed for the two men and his wife Josephine posed for the red-haired woman.

Self-portrait, Josephine Hopper

The scene in this painting was supposedly inspired by a diner in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, which was demolished after the painting. Hopper said “This painting was suggested by a restaurant on Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet.” He also said “I simplified the scene a great deal and made the restaurant bigger.”

This very famous painting has been influenced on many works of culture and arts.

For the paintings, Hopper influenced on the Photorealists of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Ralph Goings. 

Ralph's Diner, Ralph Goings (1981–1982)

Gottfried Helnwein's painting "Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1984)" replaced the four characters in this paintings with American pop culture icons Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Elvis Presley.

Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Gottfried Helnwein (1984)

For the films, Hopper was an avid moviegoer and critics mentioned that his paintings resembled film stills. 

This painting and his works, such as “Night Shadows (1921),” resemble the look of film noir, in which Hopper may have been influenced.

Night Shadows, Edward Hopper (1921)

Hopper influenced on the musical film "Pennies from Heaven (1981)," for which the film's production designer Ken Adam recreated this painting as a film set. 

Pennies from Heaven (1981)

Director Wim Wenders recreated this painting as the set for a film-within-a-film in “The End of Violence (1997).”

The End of Violence (1997)

For the music, the title, cover and lyrics of Tom Waits' album “Nighthawks at the Diner (1975)” were inspired by this painting.

Nighthawks at the Diner, Tom Waits (1975)

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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: 63. Théodore Rousseau, ACJ Art Academy

Born: April 15, 1812; Paris, France
Died: December 22, 1867; Barbizon, France
Nationality: French
Art Movement: Realism, Barbizon school
Genre: landscape
Field: painting
Influenced on: Narcisse-Virgilio Diaz
Friends/Co-workers: Jean-Francois Millet, Camille Corot


Théodore Rousseau was a French painter of the Barbizon school, born in a bourgeois family in Paris, France. 

Théodore Rousseau

He had exhibited six works in the Salons of 1831, 1833, 1834 and 1835, but in 1836, one of his masterpieces, “Paysage du Jura”, was rejected at the Salon exhibition. 

La descente des vaches dans le Jura
Théodore Rousseau

Then, between 1836 and 1841, he submitted a total of eight additional works to the Salon, but none of them were accepted. Disappointed by this, Rousseau no longer sent his works to the Salon until 1849, when all three of his submissions were accepted.

In 1851, his masterpiece "The Edge of the Forest", similar in treatment to, but slightly different in subject from, the work "A Glade in the Forest of Fontainebleau”, in the Wallace Collection at Hertford House, London, was exhibited. 

Edge of the Forest at Fontainebleau, Setting Sun
Théodore Rousseau

A Glade in the Forest of Fontainebleau
Théodore Rousseau, Wallace Collection

Wallace Collection

Rousseau only occasionally had lived at Barbizon until this time, but from 1848 he lived in this forest village and spent most of his remaining life nearby.

Forest of Fontainebleau

Then, Rousseau suffered a series of misfortunes, including his wife's deteriorating mental health and almost no patrons. Also, in 1863, while visiting the Alps, sketching Mont Blanc, he became seriously ill with pneumonia and, after returning to Barbizon, suffered from insomnia, making his body gradually weakened.

Mont Blanc, Alps

He was elected president of the fine-art jury for the 1867 Exposition, but in August he became paralyzed. He recovered slightly, but again suffered several times in the fall. 

His condition worsened in November 1867, and he eventually died in the presence of his lifelong friend and most admired painter Jean-François Millet, on December 22, 1867, who assumed charge of Rousseau's ill wife at his death.

The Sheepfold, Jean François Millet

Famous Works (Théodore Rousseau)

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