School is great! Made some new friends: Pierre-August Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and a dude that’s in the medical field named Frederic Bazille. It’s fun painting together. We started a new painting style since we’re tired of the Academies’ themes, dark color, and lack of expression. Common characteristics of our radical painting include: visible brush strokes, open-composition, light and its changing qualities, movement, ordinary subjects, and the play of different perspectives. We’re breaking all the rules. The Academy even looks down on painting outdoors. We meet regularly at a Café afterwards. Manet shows up too! He just showed me the other day his painting that he submitted for the Academy’s Salon artshow. The jury better approve it!
WHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTT???????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Luncheon at the Grass is a fantastic painting! I can’t believe that the jury denied it!!! What’s so wrong about a naked chick having a picnic with two clothed guys? They enter paintings with naked people ALL of the time at the Salon. Who cares that this isn’t historical or allegorical! The style is exquisite! I’m so sick and tired of all their standards! If I see another historical or religious painting I’m just going to go jump off a bridge.
I guess they’ve been getting a lot of complaints. Emperor Napeleon III decreed that the public be allowed to judge the works. Ha! Take that jury!
WHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTT???????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Luncheon at the Grass is a fantastic painting! I can’t believe that the jury denied it!!! What’s so wrong about a naked chick having a picnic with two clothed guys? They enter paintings with naked people ALL of the time at the Salon. Who cares that this isn’t historical or allegorical! The style is exquisite! I’m so sick and tired of all their standards! If I see another historical or religious painting I’m just going to go jump off a bridge.
I guess they’ve been getting a lot of complaints. Emperor Napeleon III decreed that the public be allowed to judge the works. Ha! Take that jury!
