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Dong Yang, Henan University of Economics and Law, ChinaAbstract
The “flatness” and “modernity” in Manet's pictorial space are of great significance to early modernist painting. The internal factors of European local culture, references to new technologies, and foreign borrowings are the three main factors for Manet's formal innovations. Manet's use of “frontal light sources” and “flat application of color blocks” to generalize and compress the depth of the pictorial space is key to the formation of “flatness” in his painting space. In early modernist painting, the modern life of Paris is reflected not only in the leisure life of entertainment themes but also in the modern information of goddess-themed works. Through the image capture and formal analysis of the works' styles, Manet placed his “Venus” goddess in the “modern” mirror space and image space, and closely linked the “flat” visual space with the “modernity” consciousness, reflecting the free outlook of modern culture in European capitalist society in the late 19th century, and more importantly, expressing the innovative spirit of early modernist painting in visual space.
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Conference: ECAH2025Stream: Arts - Arts Theory and Criticism
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Yang D. (2025) Flattening and Simplifying: Flatness and Modernity in the Space of Manet’s Paintings ISSN: 2188-1111 – The European Conference on Arts & Humanities 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 299-308) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-1111.2025.25
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