VIS 22 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Charging Chasseur, Linda Nochlin, Edgar Degas
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French painting in the mid 17th century faces a crisis. The painters found themselves forced to choose between 2 equally undesirable alternatives: Before, painters can only paint for the crown, lebrun, as a bureaucracy before a painter, is a site of a convergence of two great forces: bureaucracy and text . He founded the academie and claimed for the centralised of academie of the rights which have been exerted by the church and the crown: the right of painters to dictate which work they want to paint. He created the annual prize in 1663. In 1666 lebrun introduced discourse: every month a work from the collection to be discussed in public by academie. Lebrun"s most ambitious and famous work: eleven full-scale and eighteen minor paintings. Lebrun contributes more to the textuality of the image over its figuratively. War painting : absolute publicity, legibility of the body; allegorical, narrative.
