NYC: MET - Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity. The exquisite exhibition Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, at
the MET, until May 27, presents a revealing look at the role of fashion
in the works of the Impressionists and their contemporaries. Some eighty major
figure paintings, seen in concert with period costumes, accessories, fashion
plates, photographs, highlight the vital relationship between fashion and art
during the pivotal years, from the mid-1860s to the mid-1880s, when Paris
emerged as the style capital of the world.
Above. Edouard Manet’s Young Lady in 1866. It is a portrait one of Manet’s models,
Victorine, she poses in a peignoir after having posed naked for his Olympia and
Luncheon on the Grass paintings.
MET - Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity. In the Black
Dress Room, the color
black vivified sitters ranging from the beguiling bohemian Nina de Callias in
Manet's Lady with Fans, above (to
the quirkily extravagant artist's model and budding actress Ellen Andrée in
Manet's The Parisienne and the refined Madame Charpentier in
Renoir's portrait of 1878. And as Auguste Renoir said “Black is the queen of
colors.”
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