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Lunch on the Grass

"Lunch on the Grass" Painting: Specification: 208×264.5 cm Texture: Oil on canvas Storage: Musée d'Orsay, Paris. (French: le déjeuner sur l'herbe) is an oil on canvas painting by the French Realist and Impressionist painter Manet between 1862 and 1863. Originally titled Bath (French: le bain). Several figures in the painting form an interlaced triangle, and the limbs of the two men and the are intertwined, thus highlighting the meaning of the painting's sexuality.

"Lunch on the Grass" Appreciation: This is the composition of a painter imitating Giorgione's "Country Concert" (aka "Pastoral Ensemble") in the Louvre, but it is not the idyllic painting of 16th-century Venice. The nude woman in the painting is his model In his earlier painting Of Victorina Meran in a Matador Costume. She was a prostitute that Manet had brought back from the street and had long worked as a model for painters. The painter had her in this painting depicting herself sitting naked on a meadow by a stream in the woods, with two dressed gentlemen (Ferdinand and Manet's brother, Eugène. Manet) as a companion; there is an overturned basket in the foreground on the left, the food rolls out of the basket, and in the lake pool in the background, a woman wearing only a shirt is painted, leaning over and standing in the water. It is a carefully arranged "picnic", a bold experiment by the painter in search of color contrast. This composition annoys many of the leading figures in the painting world. Around Manet's painting, the critics' community was divided into two camps. The two sides engaged each other in a short battle. Manet made this meaning clear, he treated Ferdinand's raised right hand and left hand, Eugène's exposed right foot as a uniform color, the same texture, and drew Ferdinand's raised hand in the center, which was the top of an anatomical triangle. It has been pointed out that this is what is traditionally called a symbol of male and female incest, and that Manet's name was already familiar in the Coutier studio, so that it hung on the lips of almost every Parisian who cared about the exhibition.

About the Author: Édouard Manet (1832-1883) was a famous French painter of the 19th century and a leader of impressionism. Born in Paris to a wealthy family of judges, he worked as a seafarer in his youth and later studied in the studio of the academic painter Koutour. But his unique personality makes it impossible to tolerate the rigidity and falsity of the academic school, he said: "Whenever I walk into the studio, I feel as if I have walked into a grave." After leaving the studio, he went to various art galleries to copy and study the works of previous masters. The painting "Lunch on the Grass", exhibited in the Salon of the Losers in 1863, caused a rare sensation in the world, and both the subject matter and the method of expression were contrary to the dominant academic principles of the time. It directly represents the earthly environment. Another of Manet's works, Olympia, exhibited in 1865, also caused an uproar in its deviant art form, where it was violently attacked by critics and the press, and was cursed as "shameless to the extreme.". Progressive writers and young painters, led by Zola, applauded Manet. Zola said: "Manet will have a place in the Louvre. This controversy made Manet famous, and a group of young painters gathered around him, who were influenced by Manet's novel painting style and tried to explore new artistic styles and techniques, which were ridiculed by the people of the time as the "Manet Gang", which became the famous Impressionists, and Manet invisibly became the leader of these Impressionist painters. Manet, with his strong painterly sensitivity and exemplary works, turned the paintings of his time upside down. On 30 April 1883, Manet fell ill and died. Manet's name is derived from the Latin inscription manet et manebit, which means: "He lives and will live".

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