%0 Journal Article
%T French Orientalist Painting as an Expression of Cultural Imperialism: Parisiennes en costume alg¨¦rienne
%A Tot
%A Dora
%J -
%D 2017
%X Sa£¿etak Came to be as a consequence of the Orientalist discourse, Orientalist painting has significantly marked the 19th-century French art. It was an extremely popular form of cultural representation of the French power and colonial domination, but also a way of constructing the Oriental reality. Although primarily remembered as a painter of the French daily-life, the renowned impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir had also tried his hand at Oriental themes. He painted the Parisiennesen costume alg¨¦rienne in 1872, nearly ten years before he personally experienced the Orient. Undoubtedly, created under the influence of the Femmes d¡¯Alger, Renoir¡¯s work is entirely opposite of the famous Delacroix¡¯s painting in its presentation of the Orient. The fact that the painting originated in a specific historical context ¨C the era of great colonial empires ¨C gives a reason for analysing its role in the construction of the Orient but also the representation of the Occident/West as its lasting contrary
%K Edward W. Said
%K cultural imperialism
%K colonialism
%K Orientalism
%K Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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