First venue of kind on Boulevard Montmarte, 'no theatre could exude such glamour as this'
First painting of electric light, Electrcitu fair, influence of Baudelaire in paiting 'epic quality of life today', increased middle class and leisure
Modern People
Suzon real barmaid, Taine said it was workclass girl's dream, but she's melancholy- comment on alienation of modernity, Hopper went to Paris- inspired images of city disloaction
Barmaids linked to prostitutes (30,000 in Paris), sexualised, suspicious man in mirror
Mery Leurant (prostitute) in back, actress Jeanne de Marsay and trapeze artist Katarina Johns
Prostitution part of modern life to satisfy male desire, but linked with STDs and de-evolution
Technique
Sketches on spot - flaneur, obvious, unacademic brushstrokes (Couture), out of focus
Great attention to still lifes, constructed in a studio, prehaps futher comment on superficiality
Innacuracies with viewers position not matching mirror
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Monet 'La Grenouillere' (1869)
Modern Location
Isle de Croissy, 7.5 miles from Paris, accessible on pleasure trains - industrial rev and wealth
Rise in tourism as Npaoleon III visited, 'all the scum of the world, all the most distinguished riff raff, all the motliness of Parisian society' -Maupassant, 'frog' could also ref prostitutes
People swimming, socialising, floating dance hall, 'both indecent and refined'
Modern Style
Sketch for larger piece, quick , en plein air, painted with Renoir
New tubes of paint, portable, new pigments emerald, viridan and chrome shown
Lack of subject, more about colour, photography influence in blurry and halation effect
Modern Influences
Nadar, scietific journals and Cheveruel's work on optical theory -uses blue/ orange for shadow
In England, saw Turner- abstraction, modern life, outdoors and Constable- transitory effects
Japanese prints- graphical flatness, bright colours, Ukiyo-E school depicted modern world
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Renoir 'La Loge' (1874)
Context
Models - Renoir's brother and Linny Lopez
Couple in theatre box- huge rise in theatre as social spectacle, 20,000 tickets sold a week
Popularity of fashin, La Mode Illustree modelled in theatre boxes, invention of sewing machine
Woman
Vacant stare, heavily made up, sexualised red lipstick, expensive jewellery, decollatage
'Tenure de Premire' - to impress, passive with glasses down, fan connotes flirting
Renoir misogynistic, women belonged in home and should be objectified, re-feminises
Male gaze
Man active, mirrors own act of looking, could be scanning for prostitutes (common in theatres)
Renoir- men had right to admire, scopophilia (pleasure in looking), Impressionist theme
Compare to Cassatt's 'Woman in Black'- dominate female, actively looking
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