Three Muses
by Don McCunn
Title
Three Muses
Artist
Don McCunn
Medium
Photograph
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This composite image combines the pose from Gustave Courbet’s "The Painter’s Studio" with Georges Seurat’s painting "Models."
Gustave Courbet declared, "[W]hen I am dead, let this be said of me: ‘He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty.’" In "The Painter’s Studio" he is flanked by friends and admirers on the right and challengers on the left.
Georges Seurat, heavily criticized for pointillism, was rejected by the Paris Salon. Told pointillism could only work with outdoor subjects, he defiantly painted indoor skin tones in ‘Models.’
Pointillism’s tiny juxtaposed dots of multi-colored paint allow a viewer to blend colors optically—rather like the dots used in photographs.
(Excerpt from the book "Revisiting the Classics.")
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April 23rd, 2013
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