http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/436114
This painting by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps “The Experts”, to me is very interesting. In class we were talking a lot about the enlightenment and the impact that the enlightenment has had. We have discussed how men began to sit around in coffee houses and entertain different ideas of what they believed to be elevated thought. However, Decamps depicts the same men as monkeys, to me that kind of shows that Decamps feels perhaps that although they are acting enlightened and as if they are suddenly mentally superior they really have no clue what they are talking about. He depicts them as fools almost by depicting them as monkeys .