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30-6 The Artist's Studio
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Made by Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre in 1837. The composition mimicks still life painting. It was made when Daguerre was experimenting with ways to duplicate his paintings. He discovered that a plate covered with light-sensitive chemicals and exposed to light for 20-30 minutes would reveal a latent image whe exposed to mercury vapors. He developed a way to fix this image by bathing the plate in a solution of salt and using the chemical hyposulphate of soda. The picture of the studio shows examples of this, which is called a Daguerreotype.
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30-15 First Leaves, Near Mantes
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Oil on canvas by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Resides in the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. The painting depicts a scene infused with the sot mist of early Spring in the woods. Corot invites us to feel the crisp Spring air. Naturalistic painting. Man and woman stop to talk in the woods. Another woman labors in the woods. These images of peaceful country life held great appeal for Parisians who had experienced the chaos of the 1848 revolution and who lived in an increasingly crowded, noisy, fast paced metropolis.
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30-17 The Luncheon on the Grass
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This oil on canvas by Edouard Manet was featured in the "Salonn des Refuses" (Salon of the Rejected ones). He was a radical artist. The painting is of a suburban picnic with two fully dressed men (his brother & brother in law) a naked woman, and a half dressed woman in the background appearing to bathe herself. His audience assumed these women were the men's prostitutes.
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30-22 The Life Line
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Oil on canvas by Winslow Homer. 1884. Resides at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The painting depicts a coastgaurd saving a shipwrecked woman with the use of breeches buoy (a mechanical apparatus used to rescue at sea). He liked themes of heroic struggle against natural adversity.
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