Live!: A History of Art. Week 5, day 1
Week 5: Time & Motion
Moving Before the Movies
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (18 November 1787 - 10 July 1851) was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography.
Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 3rd arrondissement, Daguerreotype. Believed to be the earliest photograph showing a living person. It is a view of a busy street, but because the exposure time was at least ten minutes the moving traffic left no trace. Only the two men near the bottom left corner, one apparently having his boots polished by the other, stayed in one place long enough to be visible. Note that, as with most daguerreotypes, the image is a mirror image.
Edgar Degas ( born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas; (19 July 1834 - 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings.
At the Races in the Country, circa 1872, oil on canvas, 36.5 × 55.9 cm
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (21 August 1725 - 4 March 1805) was a French painter.
he Father's Curse: The Son Punished, 1777, oil on canvas
Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.
Le Boulevard des Capucines, 1873-74, oil on canvas
Moving Before the Movies
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (18 November 1787 - 10 July 1851) was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography.
Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 3rd arrondissement, Daguerreotype. Believed to be the earliest photograph showing a living person. It is a view of a busy street, but because the exposure time was at least ten minutes the moving traffic left no trace. Only the two men near the bottom left corner, one apparently having his boots polished by the other, stayed in one place long enough to be visible. Note that, as with most daguerreotypes, the image is a mirror image.
Edgar Degas ( born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas; (19 July 1834 - 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings.
At the Races in the Country, circa 1872, oil on canvas, 36.5 × 55.9 cm
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (21 August 1725 - 4 March 1805) was a French painter.
he Father's Curse: The Son Punished, 1777, oil on canvas
Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.
Le Boulevard des Capucines, 1873-74, oil on canvas