Wes Anderson, Edouard Manet and modernity

You remember, I wrote articles about Manet and modernity, here :

• The “Brushstroke Pattern” & Progress in Arts : Offering Awareness
• “Get out of your dream!” as a modernity

In brief : there was a period in Art when artists really stopped hiding it’s a painting. For example, they were not afraid to show the brushstrokes anymore.

Valéry says : some works of Art want you to dream, others want you to THINK.

Today I read an article about Wes Anderson‘s movie Isle of Dogs, which is an animated film.

The author says that there are two types of animated movies :

1. One tries to mimic natural movements, tries to make us forget what we see is the result of photographies in a row, a “reality effect”.
2. The other one shows characters as objects or puppets, it brings the audience to the reality of… making. A little cloud of smoke does not hide it’s a little bowl of cotton.

This second “way” (which is Anderson’s way, of course) is exactly the way Manet paints (and after him, the impressionists)… and then…

Another poetry comes from that, you can almost see the animator’s hand. Why do we prefer “this” poetry?

Thanks for reading!

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