Bastion point and Manet Response

With both the lectures about the artist Manet and the documentary about Bastion Point are both about the displacement of people where they are being moved to another place. This was done by the government, like for instance the artist Manet and many other Parisian people were forced to move out of the newly renovated and developed city out to the country and other parts of France. This was because of the high living costs that came along with living in Paris. This influenced Manet’s artworks as he painted the displacement of people in Paris, and how they were displaced and forced them to move out of the city. This is also subtly critiqued the ‘salon’, whom only exhibited artists that showed merit and academically taught. Through the modernisation of Paris and the displacement of its people created urged the artists to respond to the evolving modernisation of Paris throughout their work. This made the artist’s work develop into a modern style and thus creation of modernism within art. This is similar and relates to Bastion point and the documentary   and how the government forced the people off the land. This documentary was really formative as I was unaware of the protests and occupation of Bastion point. It was also interesting out find out what happened and how it has affected our country and shows the connection to the modernism of Paris where people had to leave their precious homes. This is similar to Bastion Point as the Maoris were moved off the land into state housing, but unlike the Parisian’s the Maoris fought back against the government by occupying the land of Bastion point until they forced and escorted off the land by the government and police. But them occupying  the land did pay off because later on the government decided that Bastion point was indeed Maori land so no developments was too happen there, so it was left as untouched land.