Modernity in Picasso's The Diners (Les Soupeurs)

 
examine the three paintings listed below:

1) Edouard Manet, Children in the Tuileries Gardens, ca. 1861-62
2) William Powell Frith, The Salon d?Or, Homburg, 1871
3) Pablo Picasso, The Diners (Les Soupeurs), 1901

Choose one of the paintings and write a short paper (4 pages) discussing relationships between it and Charles Baudelaire?s essay entitled ?The Painter of Modern Life? (uploaded to our Digication site).

Some questions to consider as you formulate your thesis:

What does Baudelaire mean by ?modern life?? How does he suggest that painters should represent it? [note: Baudelaire presents his recommendations both directly, by instructing the reader on what to do or not to do, and indirectly, by commenting at length on the works of M. G., an artist he admires and who functions in Baudelaire?s text as a model for the ideal painter of modern life]
How does your chosen image establish a relationship to modernity through subject matter, point of view, and/or paint handling?
Does the treatment of modernity in your image conform to Baudelaire?s recommendations?
Does your picture propose a way of representing modernity that differs from Baudelaire?s recommendations?

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