Home/Symbols/Crinolines and bonnets (with blue ribbons)Crinolines and bonnets (with blue ribbons) SymbolismFashionable femininity and public display in Second Empire Paris; the social theater of dress.Common ThemesThe modern lens: urban life & speedMimesis vs. abstraction (truth vs. artifice)Medium reflexivity (art about art)Leisure & recreationFashion & adornmentClass & inequalityArtworks Featuring This SymbolMusic in the TuileriesÉdouard Manet (1862)Édouard Manet’s Music in the Tuileries turns a Sunday concert into a manifesto of <strong>modern life</strong>: a frieze of top hats, crinolines, and iron chairs flickering beneath <strong>toxic green</strong> foliage. Instead of a hero or center, the painting disperses attention across a restless crowd, making <strong>looking itself</strong> the drama of the scene <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
