Let's learn about Edouard Manet this week!
Updated: Jan 20, 2021
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Artist of The Week: Édouard Manet
"Everything is mere appearance, the pleasures of a passing hour, a midsummer night's dream. Only painting, the reflection of a reflection - but the reflection, too, of eternity - can record some of the glitters of this mirage."
Édouard Manet
January 23, 1832 at Paris, France
French Painter
Impressionsm / Realism / Modernism / Modern Art
FACTS Edouard Manet came from a well-off family as his father was a reputable judge while his mother was of royal ancestry
By 1845, Manet sign up for a drawing course In the mid-1850s Manet depicted contemporary themes and everyday life situations including bullfights, people in pavement cafes, singers, and Gypsies In 1856, after six years with Couture, Manet set up a studio that he shared with Albert de Balleroy, a painter of military subjects。 1861, Manet exhibited Spanish Singer (1860), dubbed “Guitarero” by the French man of letters Théophile Gautier, who praised it enthusiastically in the periodical Le Moniteur Universel。
In 1883, April 30 besides 420 paintings, Manet left behind a reputation that would forever define him as a bold and influential artist.
FAMOUS PAINTINGS
The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe), 1863 Olympia, 1863 A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère), 1882 Young Flautis / The Fifer (Le Fifre), 1866
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