Posted in Appropriation & Inspiration, Contemporary Art, New Acquisition, Photography, tagged Andy Earl, Antonin Proust, Argenteuil, Bow Wow Wow, Claude Monet, Déjeuner Déjá Vu, Edouard Manet, Eugene Manet, Ferdinand Leenhof, Giorgione, Grounds For Sculpture, Gustave Courbet, John De Andrea, Judgment of Paris, Ladies on the Banks of the Seine, Le Concert champêtre, Le déjeuner sur l’herbe, Luncheon on the Grass, Malcom McLaren, Musée d’Orsay, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Pablo Picasso, Petit Palais, Raphael, re-interpreted artworks, Salons des Refusés, See Jungle!, Seward Johnson, Speed Museum, The Last of the Mohicans, The Museum of Modern Art, Thomas Couture, Titian, Victorine Meurent on April 27, 2010|
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Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1863. Edouard Manet (1832-1883). Oil on canvas, 208 x 264.5 cm. Musée d'Orsay, RF 1668.
When reading our recent post on the NBMAA’s new acquisition of a work by William T. Wiley, one is reminded of another re-interpreted painting, Le déjeuner sur l’herbe by Edouard Manet. However, the Wiley and Manet are opposites. While the Wiley is a modern reinterpretation of a masterpiece by a Northern Renaissance master, the Manet is the original from the 1860s that has inspired dozens of reinterpretations over the past 150 years. (more…)
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New Britain Museum of American Art 