Manet - Dejeuner sur l'herbe

Manet - Olympia

Manet - Bar at the Folies Bergères

EDOUARD MANET 1832-1883
Edouart Manet (b. Jan. 23, 1832, Paris, France - d. April 30, 1883, Paris) was a French painter and printmaker who in his own work accomplished the transition from the realism of Gustave Courbet to Impressionism. Manet broke new ground in choosing subjects from the events and appearances of his own time and in stressing the definition of painting as the arrangement of paint areas on a canvas over and above its function as representation. Exhibited in 1863 at the Salon des Refusés, his Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe ("Luncheon on the Grass") aroused the hostility of the critics and the enthusiasm of a group of young painters who later formed the nucleus of the Impressionists. His other notable works include Olympia (1863) and A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882). Edouard Manet was thirty-two when the Incident in a Bullfight was exhibited and still in the early stages of his relatively brief career, which was cut short by an untimely death at fifty-one. revered today as one of the great innovators in the history of art, he belongs to no one school, although he has been allied with the Realists and Impressionists. His radical innovations--flattening of the picture space, daring luminous effects, and simplifications of painting technique--as well as his contemporary urban subject matter, have led him to be regarded as the father of Modernism. manet@art.artsmarket.co.uk

Manet - Dejeuner sur l'herbe art

Manet - Olympia art

Manet - Bar at the Folies Bergères

Manet - Dejeuner sur l'herbe

Manet - Olympia

Manet - Bar at the Folies Bergères

Manet - Dejeuner sur l'herbe

Manet - Olympia

Manet - Bar at the Folies Bergères

 

EDOUARD MANET 1832-1883

MANET

Manet/Velázquez

In 1804, at the dawn of the French Empire, there were no more than a handful of Spanish paintings in public collections in France. During the course of the nineteenth century, however, French collectors and museums assembled substantial holdings of works by such Spanish masters as Velázquez, El Greco, Zurbarán, Murillo, and Goya. At the same time, French writers and artists—among them Delacroix, Géricault, Courbet, Millet, Bonnat, Degas, and, especially, Manet—came to understand, appreciate, and even emulate Spanish painting of the Golden Age.
This beautiful book features over 150 works by French and Spanish artists, charting the development of this cultural influence and mapping a fascinating shift in the paradigm of painting: from Idealism to Realism, from Italy to Spain, from Renaissance to Baroque. Above all, it vividly demonstrates how direct contact with Spanish painting fired the imagination of nineteenth-century French artists and brought about the triumph of Realism in the 1860s, and with it a foundation for modern art. American artists of the second half of the nineteenth century often turned to Europe for training and inspiration. Whistler, Cassatt, Eakins, Chase, and Sargent all traveled to Spain for firsthand exposure to its artistic heritage and experienced the thrill of discovering Spanish painting. Also included in this volume are works by American artists that clearly reflect the pervasive influence of and taste for Spanish painting.

From the Publisher
This book is published in conjunction with exhibitions held at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, from September 16, 2002 to January 6, 2003 and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 4 to June 8, 2003. Published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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