l'herbe

This contentious relationship has a historical precedent: in 1863 Manet's masterpiece Le déjeuner sur l'herbe was rejected from the official Salon and derisively exhibited at the Salon des Refusés (it's now given pride of place at the Musée d'Orsay).

Rebecca Taylor: Paris: A Feast of Contemporary Art? Rebecca Taylor 2010

This contentious relationship has a historical precedent: in 1863 Manet's masterpiece Le déjeuner sur l'herbe was rejected from the official Salon and derisively exhibited at the Salon des Refusés (it's now given pride of place at the Musée d'Orsay).

Rebecca Taylor: Paris: A Feast of Contemporary Art? Rebecca Taylor 2010

He plays with the long composition, repeating figures: there's Dad off to work; there's Kelly slaying buffalo; there's Lily and April sur l'herbe in their swim-team suits, lunching with the painter; there's Jimmy flinging U.S. currency to the wind; there's Connie dandling Erin; there's Ernest intently making a drawing, his first.

Thanksgiving Bill Roorbach 2011

This contentious relationship has a historical precedent: in 1863 Manet's masterpiece Le déjeuner sur l'herbe was rejected from the official Salon and derisively exhibited at the Salon des Refusés (it's now given pride of place at the Musée d'Orsay).

Rebecca Taylor: Paris: A Feast of Contemporary Art? Rebecca Taylor 2010

Then, too, what made Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe 1863 so shocking wasn't merely its portrayal of the overt male homosocial pleasure of sharing nude women sexually--that after all was established pictorially in Europe by artists like Poussin, in Rape of the Sabine Women, and Rubens, in Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011

We went to the comemmorative Monet exhibition last year - he was drawn of course to dejeuner sur l'herbe.

BritChick Paris: Why French Men Would Rather Die Than Diet BritChick Paris 2011

Vocabulary la mis-en-bouteille = bottling le potager = vegetable garden le ruisseau = creek un coupe-vent = windbreak, windbreaker le buisson = bush pile-poil = smack, just, exactly le portail = gate l'herbe (f) = grass je ne sais quoi = that certain something un désherbant = weedkiller le raisin = grape

sarcler - French Word-A-Day 2010

Edouard Manet's "Dejeuner sur l'herbe," a Parisian studio painting with potent plein-air connotations that was long sequestered on the first floor, assumes its rightful place and appears here both more monumental and prescient.

New Visions Arrive at the Orsay Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

Vocabulary la mis-en-bouteille = bottling le potager = vegetable garden le ruisseau = creek un coupe-vent = windbreak, windbreaker le buisson = bush pile-poil = smack, just, exactly le portail = gate l'herbe (f) = grass je ne sais quoi = that certain something un désherbant = weedkiller le raisin = grape

French Word-A-Day: 2010

Then, too, what made Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe 1863 so shocking wasn't merely its portrayal of the overt male homosocial pleasure of sharing nude women sexually--that after all was established pictorially in Europe by artists like Poussin, in Rape of the Sabine Women, and Rubens, in Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011