Gustave Courbet, Stonebreakers, 1849
Claude Monet, Boulevard des Capucines, 1873
Auguste Rodin, The Age of Bronze, 1876
Rodin, The Gates
of Hell, 1880-1917
Paul Gauguin, Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? 1897
James Ensor, The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889, 1888
Paul Sérusier, Landscape in the
Bois d’Amour (The Talisman),
1888
Odilon Redon, Roger and Angelica, 1910
Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondences,” 1857, from
The Flowers of Evil
Count Lautréamont, “First Song of Maldoror,” from
The Songs of Maldoror, 1869
Lautréamont also wrote famously of the fantasy of
“the chance juxtaposition of an umbrella and
a sewing machine on a dissecting table.”
Arthur Rimbaud, “Vowels,” 1871
Paul Verlaine, “Art Poétique,” 1874
Stéphane Mallarmé, “The Afternoon of a Faun,” 1876
(Mallarmé is also well known for his dictum to artists:
“Paint, not the thing itself, but the effect it produces.”)
J-K Huysmans, Against Nature, 1884, a novel of excessive aestheticism
Max Ernst, Ubu Imperator, 1923
Dora Maar, Père Ubu, 1936
Joan Miró, The Birth of Ubu, 1966