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Luncheon on the Grass
脡douard Manet鈥檚 Le D茅jeuner sur l鈥檋erbe (1863) is regularly cited as the first modern painting. It is often featured as the first slide in Art History lectures about the history of modernism.
More than thirty of today鈥檚 most acclaimed painters will respond to Manet鈥檚 Le D茅jeuner sur l鈥檋erbe in Luncheon on the Grass at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles.
Artists began creating works in response to 脡douard Manet鈥檚 Le D茅jeuner sur l鈥檋erbe within two years of its exhibition in the 1863 Salon des Refus茅s. From Claude Monet to Pablo Picasso, and more recently Robert Colescott, artists have turned to Manet鈥檚 painting as a source of radical and contradictory possibilities for painting.
Le D茅jeuner sur l鈥檋erbe astounded contemporary observers with its modernist innovations. Even today, it still has the power to shock, especially when one experiences it in person at the Mus茅e d鈥橭rsay. The jolt of seeing a naked women and two formally clothed men assembled for a picnic remains disconcerting. The most jarring aspect of the composition is the intense gaze of the female nude in the foreground, modeled by Victorine Meurent, staring back at the viewer. She is rendered as a real person, not the allegorical nude of the typical academic painting.
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脡douard Manet鈥檚 Le D茅jeuner sur l鈥檋erbe (1863) is regularly cited as the first modern painting. It is often featured as the first slide in Art History lectures about the history of modernism.
More than thirty of today鈥檚 most acclaimed painters will respond to Manet鈥檚 Le D茅jeuner sur l鈥檋erbe in Luncheon on the Grass at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles.
Artists began creating works in response to 脡douard Manet鈥檚 Le D茅jeuner sur l鈥檋erbe within two years of its exhibition in the 1863 Salon des Refus茅s. From Claude Monet to Pablo Picasso, and more recently Robert Colescott, artists have turned to Manet鈥檚 painting as a source of radical and contradictory possibilities for painting.
Le D茅jeuner sur l鈥檋erbe astounded contemporary observers with its modernist innovations. Even today, it still has the power to shock, especially when one experiences it in person at the Mus茅e d鈥橭rsay. The jolt of seeing a naked women and two formally clothed men assembled for a picnic remains disconcerting. The most jarring aspect of the composition is the intense gaze of the female nude in the foreground, modeled by Victorine Meurent, staring back at the viewer. She is rendered as a real person, not the allegorical nude of the typical academic painting.
Artists on show
- Alain G. F. Jacquet
- Ariana Papademetropoulos
- Caitlin Cherry
- Cecily Brown
- Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
- Christina Quarles
- Cindy Ji Hye Kim
- Claude Monet
- David Salle
- Dominique Fung
- Édouard Manet
- Ella Kruglyanskaya
- Giangiacomo Rossetti
- Jeff Koons
- Jill Mulleady
- Joe Coleman
- John Wesley
- Karen Kilimnik
- Katja Seib
- Kehinde Wiley
- Kurt Kauper
- Liu Xiaodong
- Mickalene Thomas
- Naudline Pierre
- Nina Chanel Abney
- Pablo Picasso
- Paul McCarthy
- Paul McCarthy
- Robert Colescott
- Salman Toor
- Sam McKinniss
- Somaya Critchlow
- Sophie Matisse
- Tala Madani
- Tschabalala Self
- Vanessa Beecroft
- Vaughn Spann
- Walter Robinson
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