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Manet masterpiece given 'MISOGYNY' alert over 'male gaze': London's Courtauld Gallery puts 'woke' warning beneath 1882 piece A Bar at the Folies-Bergère... due to barmaid's 'unsettling' expression about man shown in mirror
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 12, 2022 | Harry Howard

Posted on 04/12/2022 6:30:32 AM PDT by C19fan

The Courtauld Gallery has been criticised for introducing a 'woke' new label on a Manet masterpiece that warns viewers of the 'unsettling' presence of a man.

The London gallery, which holds the UK's most prestigious collection of Impressionist paintings, reviewed its labelling as part of a £57million refurbishment.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Society
KEYWORDS: art; woke
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To: C19fan

Normal behavior is being banned while disordered behavior is celebrated.


21 posted on 04/12/2022 7:02:57 AM PDT by G Larry (Anybody notice that Satan is hard at work?)
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To: Yo-Yo
He's obviously thinking of ways to exploit his "Male White Privilege" to subject her to patriarchal oppression.

It's as plain as day!

Regards,

22 posted on 04/12/2022 7:03:19 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Army Air Corps

They are bothered because it depicts in their mind heterosexual. If that barmaid was a guy, this would get the “art of the century award”.


23 posted on 04/12/2022 7:06:00 AM PDT by dforest
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To: C19fan

Can’t help thinking we are nearing a tipping point on such nonsense, that the woke nonsense bubble is bound to burst.

More troubling to me is that I can’t make the angles work on that reflection. If that mirror goes straight across the backbar, as it seems to; and given that she’s staring straight ahead; we should see his top hat behind her head, eh?

Most troubling of all? That bustle under her dress seems to be an advertisement for big butts. I’m deeply offended that it is cultural appropriation.


24 posted on 04/12/2022 7:09:05 AM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Army Air Corps

Feminists and their woke pals make my late grandmother seem libertine. She used to chase us out of the house when my aunt was nursing. A raging southern baptist. Orwell referred to the “No sex league” in “1984.” Every look, every thought must be policed.


25 posted on 04/12/2022 7:13:23 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: C19fan

The U.S. is the ground zero of serious mental health problems.


26 posted on 04/12/2022 7:14:53 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: ClearCase_guy
A gentleman approaches a bar-maid at a bar, almost certainly asking for a drink of some sort, since bar-maids are there to provide drinks to gentlemen. ... Heads explode.

Yes, but it's OK to advocate child genital mutilation in order to "correct God's mistake".

27 posted on 04/12/2022 7:21:50 AM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: C19fan

The man is from the Department of Public Health.
He is telling the woman that she and her business are non-essential.


28 posted on 04/12/2022 7:35:59 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: C19fan

Unbelievable!!

A patron at a bar thinking he’s got a shot with the barmaid.


29 posted on 04/12/2022 7:37:31 AM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: C19fan

So this misogynist walks into a bar.....


30 posted on 04/12/2022 7:38:38 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire CBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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To: Yo-Yo

She looks bored...


31 posted on 04/12/2022 8:14:52 AM PDT by Mathews (It's all gravy, baby!)
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To: Mathews
She looks bored...

No doubt from listening to his constant half-drunk "mansplaining."

32 posted on 04/12/2022 8:24:26 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: mdmathis6
Her expression appears jaded like she is asking...”Yeah bud, what’ll ya have?” She doesn’t look exploited to me!

My class looked at this painting in ARt Appreciation in high school. The main impression we got was that the poor woman was worn out, look at the size of the crowd in the mirror, that is a serious rush of customers.
33 posted on 04/12/2022 8:38:50 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (“...we would live very well without Facebook."-B.LeMaire)
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To: dforest
They are bothered because it depicts in their mind heterosexual. If that barmaid was a guy, this would get the “art of the century award”.

I think her look says that this obvious homosexual just asked her for a glass of champagne.

34 posted on 04/12/2022 8:47:07 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Army Air Corps

The left are more Taliban than Puritan.


35 posted on 04/12/2022 8:59:33 AM PDT by brewer1516
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To: C19fan

In time, all art will have ‘warnings’. Then it’ll all just be banned, and disappear.


36 posted on 04/12/2022 9:08:48 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: C19fan

I am offended by the misandry inherent in the other twits description of the “male gaze”.


37 posted on 04/12/2022 9:17:03 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Yeah i guess I can see that...I used the term “jaded” in terms of being “world weary”, some what cynical and wanting to stay somewhat disconnected from the customer she’s serving.”Hey, bud what’ll ya have...? or expressions like it are heard all over the world in any bar no matter the language or the country...and the look from the bartender is always the same at 1 am in the morning in what ever country.Just my opinion... worth only the 2 bucks it takes to get coffee from mickey d’s.

If Manet had painted a man with that same expression, would your class have had the same reactions that you described, do you think?


38 posted on 04/12/2022 9:22:50 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: C19fan

Some people are just too delicate for the cruel real world and should be locked up for their own protection. The rest of us just order a drink.


39 posted on 04/12/2022 9:32:22 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Yo-Yo

I’m wondering if the labels on the bottles are accurate and identifiable. A couple of the bottles look like Bass beer labels, and one bottle looks like a Grande Marnie bottle. Just wondering if the artist violated copyrights, or if he was compensated for label placement.


40 posted on 04/12/2022 9:34:03 AM PDT by ResponseAbility (-The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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