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
