The history of an art piece that is born with the culture of humanity personifies the history and the human emotions of the era of its creation. Each artistic product illustrates the unique culture of humanity and demonstrates the human mentality and ...
The history of an art piece that is born with the culture of humanity personifies the history and the human emotions of the era of its creation. Each artistic product illustrates the unique culture of humanity and demonstrates the human mentality and psychology of the world at that certain time. Hence, there is a need to look deeper than the classic aesthetic pleasure that can be derived from a piece of work and to understand the various cultural innuendoes that are reflected in the work. Understanding the form in which a piece of art illustrates the emotions and thoughts within the aesthetic categories is in essence an understanding of the era of an art piece's birth and the culture of such era. The type of influence a piece might have on the next era can be deduced through such analysis.
Analysis of the unique men's fashion as illustrated by the 19th century French impressionist Manet was conducted using the above mentioned perspective as the foundation while researching his works. The goal was to examine the social and cultural influences, the fashion culture and how the fashion culture was visually adapted and reproduced in his works. The scope of this dissertation focused on the men's apparel, hairstyles and beard styles of 19th century France. The category of "apparel" included hats, shoes and accessories such as canes. Through researching the cultural notions of 19th century France and the symbolism of the state of fashion that is depicted in the pieces of arts that represent 19th century France, this paper sets to derive a set model to analyze the fashion culture and group the cultural styles and functions shown in the pieces of art.