Edouard Manet - DPChallenge Forums

06/16/2015 11:46:36 AM · #1

Manet invented the snapshot. Take a photo inspired by this master.

Examples:

06/16/2015 11:48:40 AM · #2

Help, apparently the forums don't like French accents and deleted my title. Can SC make the title "Edouard Manet"?

06/16/2015 11:51:17 AM · #3

I think you mean Monet honey.

Olympus 17mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko

06/16/2015 11:58:12 AM · #4

and that ain't snapshots, those are made under expert editing ruleset

ubique

Olympus PEN-F

06/16/2015 11:58:18 AM · #5

Originally posted by smardaz:

I think you mean Monet honey.

Oh dear.

Q. If I take a photo like the first pic, but the girl is facing the other way, will the voters accept it as a snapshot? I mean if she's still wearing the blue of course.

ubique

Olympus PEN-F

Olympus 17mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko

06/16/2015 12:00:10 PM · #6

Originally posted by h2:

and that ain't snapshots, those are made under expert editing ruleset

Oh dear, again.

nam

Sony DSLR-A580

Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED Zoom Lens for Sony Alpha

06/16/2015 12:01:03 PM · #7

Originally posted by smardaz:

I think you mean Monet honey.

I don't.

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

06/16/2015 12:04:47 PM · #8

Originally posted by nam:

Originally posted by smardaz:
I think you mean Monet honey.

I don't.

Sorry, it was a Family Guy reference.

Spork99

OM System OM-1

06/16/2015 12:12:50 PM · #9

Q: What does does Baroque mean?

A: You're out of Monet.

06/16/2015 12:21:08 PM · #10

Originally posted by ubique:

Originally posted by h2:
and that ain't snapshots, those are made under expert editing ruleset

Oh dear, again.

Sorry if that was too much for you

06/16/2015 12:22:07 PM · #11

actually, a lot of his picture were planned to the detail, this one for example took days

Message edited by author 2015-06-16 12:23:33.

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06/16/2015 12:31:57 PM · #12

a Monet challenge would be too similar to another Impressionism challenge

tnun

Ricoh GR III

06/16/2015 01:20:33 PM · #13

Originally posted by h2:

actually, a lot of his picture were planned to the detail, this one for example took days

oh dear

jagar

Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+

Sony Sonnar FE 2.8 35mm ZA

06/16/2015 01:39:45 PM · #14

Yes, even snap shots took days back then.

skewsme

Canon EOS-6D

Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 L II USM Lens

06/16/2015 01:39:58 PM · #15

ceci n'est pas une exemple

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 16-35 f/4 ED VR

06/16/2015 01:43:12 PM · #16

Originally posted by tnun:

oh dear

i'm back two weeks and you already bore me again. where'
s your sense of humour ?

LanndonKane

Nikon D800

06/16/2015 01:51:48 PM · #17

Dinner with Lauren

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 16-35 f/4 ED VR

06/16/2015 01:57:46 PM · #18

Originally posted by LanndonKane:

Dinner with Lauren

I thought you were gonna show my Monet reference and make me look less like a weirdo

LanndonKane

Nikon D800

06/16/2015 02:00:45 PM · #19

Originally posted by smardaz:

Originally posted by LanndonKane:
Dinner with Lauren

I thought you were gonna show my Monet reference and make me look less like a weirdo

Isn't that what this is? didn't actually watch the clip.

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

06/16/2015 02:36:56 PM · #20

Originally posted by LanndonKane:

Originally posted by smardaz:

Originally posted by LanndonKane:
Dinner with Lauren

I thought you were gonna show my Monet reference and make me look less like a weirdo

Isn't that what this is? didn't actually watch the clip.

HA! no, it was a funny clip tho

BrennanOB

Canon EOS-1D Mark II

06/16/2015 03:04:45 PM · #21

I like the idea of a challenge that tries to emulate a great painter, but how people see that painter can vary widely.

I always liked Manet for his tight structure; you can see the logic of the lawyer his family intended him to be in this painting. While he was grouped in with the fauvists, his painting owes more to Velasquez and Goya than the wild men. He took old master forms and placed them in modern settings, using signs of the new age and blank space to twist classicism. His Olympia pretty much made his reputation, and it is about as casually thrown together as one of Newton's proofs.

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06/16/2015 03:08:43 PM · #22

Originally posted by BrennanOB:

I like the idea of a challenge that tries to emulate a great painter, but how people see that painter can vary widely.

I always like Manet for his tight structure; you can see the logic of the lawyer his family intended him to be in this painting. While he was grouped in with the fauvists, his painting owes more to Velasquez and Goya than the wild men. He took old master forms and placed them in modern settings, using signs of the new age and blank space to twist classicism. His Olympia pretty much made his reputation, and it is about as casually thrown together as one of Newton's proofs.

Yes, but from a photography perspective I love the idea that "snapshots" were being done by painters before photographers.

That being said, I would be perfectly happy to go with an "Inspired by Edouard Manet" challenge, with no description.

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

06/16/2015 03:19:16 PM · #23

Olympia is a crazy piece of Spanish madness, which is a thousand times better than the platitude and inertia of so many canvases on show.
Armed insurrection in the camps of the bourgeois: it is a glass of ice water which each visitor gets full in the face when he sees the BEAUTIFUL courtesan in full bloom.
Painted of the school of Baudelaire, freely executed by a pupil of Goya; the vicious strangeness of the little faubourienne, woman of the night out of Paul Niquet, out of the mysterries of Paris and the nightmares of Edgar Poe. Her look has the sourness of someone aged, her face the disturbing perfume of fleur de mal; the body fatigued, corrupted, but painted under a single transparent light, with the shadows light and fine, the bed and the pillows are put down in the velvet modulated grey. Negress and flowers insufficient in execution, but with real harmony to them, the shoulder and arm solidly established in a clean and pure light. The cat arching its back makes the visitor laugh and relax, it is what saves M. Manet from popular execution.

Plus she has a great rack....but thats just my opinion.

BrennanOB

Canon EOS-1D Mark II

06/16/2015 03:22:43 PM · #24

Originally posted by posthumous:

Yes, but from a photography perspective I love the idea that "snapshots" were being done by painters before photographers.

I agree as far as "snapshots" being a depiction of the ordinary day to day life being linked to the realists school, but for me the term "snapshot" has that secondary meaning (mostly from John Szarkowski and his school) of the intentionally stilted, anti-romantic worldview. For me Manet got his power from marrying the romantic and the realist, and the Snapshot aesthetic is a different world.