After Manet, from May Days Long Forgotten / Carrie Mae Weems

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Accession Number
2004/2.3
Title
After Manet, from May Days Long Forgotten
Artist Nationality
American
Artist Life Dates
b. 1953
Object Creation Date
2002
Object Creation Place
North and Central America (continent)
United States (nation)
Creation Place 2
United States (nation)
Dimensions
85.73 cm x 85.73 cm x 3.81 cm (33 3/4 in. x 33 3/4 in. x 1 1/2 in.)
Century
21st century
Primary Object Classification
Photograph
Primary Object Type
black and white print
Secondary Object Classification
Photograph
Secondary Object Type
portrait
Physical Description
Black and white photograph in circular format depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass.
Subject Matter
“After Manet” functions as a critique of Edouard Manet’s “Olympia” of 1863 and “Le Dejeuner sur L’Herbe” 1862-63 which depict nude women, who are presumably courtesans or prostitutes. Weems feels Manet objectifies these women, portraying them as merely objects of beauty for man’s pleasure, and her work “After Manet” is a careful response, both formally and thematically. In Weems’ work the girls evoke a sense of youthful confidence. Unlike Manet, Weems presents her subject as empowered, visions of freedom and optimism, owned by no one.
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Image Size
2010 x 2016
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557 KB
Record
2004/2.3
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"After Manet, from May Days Long Forgotten; Carrie Mae Weems." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2004-sl-2.3/2004_2.3.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.
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