ARTH 1520 Chapter Notes - Chapter 31 : Julia Margaret Cameron, Portrait Photography, Gustave Courbet
31 Mar 2017
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Chapter 31: mid-to late nineteenth century art in europe and the united states. One of the leading academic artists of the time. A french academic painter who was a characteristic examples of orientalism. A young boy, entirely naked, is handling a python, an older man behind him playing a fipple flute, and a huddled audience sits within the background shadows in a blue tiled room. He paints the scene with photographic clarity, with close attention to detail on every calligraphic pattern on the wall, and presents an accurate representation of a specific event and locale. Orientalism: edward said describes it as characterizing both academic and avant garde art in the nineteenth century where the colonial gaze upon the orient (asia and. Middle east) were seen as something to process, with a primitive or exotic background for the civilized european visitor.
