26-03 French Orientalism

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The Orient was a source of fear, excitement, spirituality and desire. By fear I am referring to the concern that there would be an invasion by what is sometimes called the Other, a foreign culture, that would result in the loss of their culture, history and identity.
The most famous book on this subject is 'Orientalism' (1978) is by Edward Said. He argues that Orientalism is ‘a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the orient’. In other words, it is an artificial construct based on the West’s patronising perceptions and fictional creations and it often involved seeing Arab culture as exotic, backward, uncivilised, and at times dangerous.
This talk examines how Orientalism arose in nineteenth-century France and looks at the Orientalist work of Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835), Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) and Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), and Henri Matisse (1869-1954).

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@aquageraniablue6990 6 месяцев назад

Thanks Dr Shafe for this most interesting lecture.

@MegPier 2 месяца назад

Thank you! Very interesting & enlightening!

@adamcampbell-jones7621 6 месяцев назад

Thankyou for reminding me how good first Ingres then Gerome were ,followed by Renoir's Odalisque ,1870 .Mindblowing..no wonder when Amedeo Modigliani went to visit him in nice around 1917 he was an old man by then, they both died in the same year.My grandfather was based in Egypt with a bank 1918 onward & brought back many souvenirs.I always wondered why Matisse had eastern dressed models & objects portrayed in his paintings,a nod to the past.

@jontyslade101 6 месяцев назад

Why argue that these works are 'unrealistic? Other than the final juvenile work of Matisse at the end of the presentation, i fail to see the unreality of these works.

@LaurenceShafe 6 месяцев назад

I meant that many of the works are fantasies as they had never seen a harem. The figures would have been based on models so are, in that sense, realistic.

@jontyslade101 6 месяцев назад

@@LaurenceShafe Yes I understand the notion that for many creative types back then the orient was a playground of the imagination and that only the sultans inner circle would have been allowed hareem access but for me at least this detracts nothing from the authenticity of these works.

@israeldiegoriveragenius2th164 6 месяцев назад

Edward Said's book is myopic propaganda, it is also historically racist as Europe has always had an Islamic influence, since Islam's creation .Most collectors of these paintings now, are from the middle east.