Charles Baudelaire

In "The Painter of Modern Life," Baudelaire explores modernity by emphasizing the painter's role in capturing the fleeting essence of contemporary life. He associates the modern painter with the...

In "A Carcass," Baudelaire uses symbolism to explore themes of mortality and the duality of beauty and decay. The carcass represents death and the inevitable fate of all living beings, while its...

In "The Painter of Modern Life" Baudelaire argues that the painter should pay close attention to fleeting details in urban settings, details that capture the ephemeral nature of modernity.

Charles Baudelaire lived at numerous addresses throughout his life, with two notable locations being 17 quai d'Anjou, Paris (formerly l'Hotel Pimodan, now Hotel Lauzon), and his birthplace at 13 rue...

By "the sketch of manners," Baudelaire means the depiction of outward bearing or how people conduct themselves toward one another. He argues that this can best be done in art by depicting bourgeois...

Both Baudelaire's poems "Reversibility" and "To A Madonna" address idealized figures with reverential tones. "To A Madonna" venerates the Virgin Mary, while "Reversibility" addresses an angelic...

One can identify realism in "The Albatross" and "Correspondences," both by Charles Baudelaire, by looking for evidence of nature and humanity being presented in unidealized ways. The goal of realist...

Baudelaire describes Guys as a dandy and a flaneur. Both these words have special meanings in Baudelaire's aesthetic philosophy, related to the "modern" subjects which Guys paints, the crowd as his...

Charles Baudelaire can be considered a precursor to modern poetry rather than its founding father. While Walt Whitman and T. S. Eliot are often credited with this title, Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil...

Baudelaire chose Guys as his representative painter of modern life partly because Guys was known to dislike publicity and would not contradict any of Baudelaire's aesthetic ideas. Baudelaire examines...

Baudelaire’s speaker lists these items to suggest that freedom and independence are signified by the things they describe. Freedom is associated with unhampered movement and the sense of being...

In his essay "The Painter of Modern Life," Baudelaire uses Guys as an exemplar of the Modern, the painter who comes closest to the criteria he has laid down for aesthetic Modernism. He sees Guys as...