In this documentary, Revenge of the Nice, Matthew Collings takes us through the lives of 4 renowned artists during the 19th century: Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet and Paul Cezanne. From Courbet's rebelliousness and his painting "The Painter's studio" to Cezanne's complication of Impressionism niceness, Colling 2 hour summarized journey explains the impact these artists made on the Impressionistic era.
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| "The Painter's Studio"- allegory of society |
An interesting fact about these 4 men was that they all knew each other and hung out together in a cafe. They even bought each others work. It was during one of these leisurely hang outs that they came up with this radical idea: "Art should be real and not false". Which can be exemplified in Courbet's painting "The Painter's Studio". Though he is disguising his mockery of political figures in 19th century France, Courbet is depicting his detest for these people in a 20 ft painting for the world to see because he wants the truth to come out, yet he still had to be careful with how much truth he showed because such mockery of important figure heads was not allowed.
What I liked about this video was how Colling's would show the specific landscape and then the Impression of it to compare with. I also liked that he went to where the painters world. I found every artist talked about in this documentary to be interesting and it was because of how Colling's described them. Through the description of the historical events, it made the personal and professional lives of the painters much more appealing. They became human with their own personal problems rather than a hero like past painters with their brilliant masterpieces
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