Édouard Manet: 1 Early Life
Édouard Manet: 1 Early Life
Édouard Manet: 1 Early Life
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2 2 CAREER
2.3 Olympia
2.2 Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur
l'herbe) Main article: Olympia (Manet)
Olympia, 1863
Camille Corot. They had a reciprocating relationship his Impromptu to Manet’s wife.[10]
and Manet incorporated some of her techniques into his Throughout his life, although resisted by art critics, Manet
paintings. In 1874, she became his sister-in-law when she could number as his champions Émile Zola, who sup-
married his brother, Eugène. ported him publicly in the press, Stéphane Mallarmé, and
Charles Baudelaire, who challenged him to depict life as
it was. Manet, in turn, drew or painted each of them.
2.6 Paintings of social activities The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, 1867. Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston. The least finished of three large canvases devoted
to the execution of Maximilian I of Mexico.
3 Death
In April 1883, his left foot was amputated because of source material. He rejected the technique he had learned
gangrene, and he died eleven days later in Paris. He is in the studio of Thomas Couture – in which a painting was
buried in the Passy Cemetery in the city. constructed using successive layers of paint on a dark-
toned ground – in favor of a direct, alla prima method
using opaque paint on a light ground. Novel at the time,
4 Legacy this method made possible the completion of a painting
in a single sitting. It was adopted by the Impressionists,
and became the prevalent method of painting in oils for
Manet’s public career lasted from 1861, the year of his
generations that followed.[29] Manet’s work is considered
first participation in the Salon, until his death in 1883. “early modern”, partially because of the opaque flatness
His extant works, as catalogued in 1975 by Denis Rouart
of his surfaces, the frequent sketchlike passages, and the
and Daniel Wildenstein, comprise 430 oil paintings, 89 black outlining of figures, all of which draw attention to
pastels, and more than 400 works on paper.[27] the surface of the picture plane and the material quality
Although harshly condemned by critics who decried its of paint.
lack of conventional finish, Manet’s work had admirers The art historian Beatrice Farwell says Manet “has been
from the beginning. One was Émile Zola, who wrote universally regarded as the Father of Modernism. With
in 1867: “We are not accustomed to seeing such sim- Courbet he was among the first to take serious risks with
ple and direct translations of reality. Then, as I said, the public whose favour he sought, the first to make alla
there is such a surprisingly elegant awkwardness ... it is a prima painting the standard technique for oil painting and
truly charming experience to contemplate this luminous one of the first to take liberties with Renaissance perspec-
and serious painting which interprets nature with a gentle tive and to offer ‘pure painting’ as a source of aesthetic
brutality.”[28] pleasure. He was a pioneer, again with Courbet, in the
The roughly painted style and photographic lighting in rejection of humanistic and historical subject-matter, and
Manet’s paintings was seen as specifically modern, and as shared with Degas the establishment of modern urban life
a challenge to the Renaissance works he copied or used as as acceptable material for high art.”[29]
8 5 GALLERY
• The Reading,
1865–1873
• The Battle of the
Kearsarge and the Alabama, 1864, Philadelphia
Museum of Art. Inspired by the Battle of Cher-
bourg (1864)
• Dead Matador,
1864–65, National Gallery of Art
• The Execution of
Emperor Maximilian, 1868
• The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as
Hamlet), 1866, National Gallery of Art
• Breakfast in the
• The Guitar Studio (the Black Jacket), 1868, New Pinakothek,
Player, c.1866, Hill-Stead Museum Munich, Germany
• In the Conserva-
• House in Rueil, 1882,
tory, 1879, National Gallery, Berlin
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• Édouard Manet: Rebel in a Frock Coat by Beth • Manet and the American Civil War : the battle of the
Archer Brombert (1996), ISBN 0-316-10947-9 and U.S.S. Kearsarge and the C.S.S. Alabama, an exhibi-
ISBN 0-226-07544-3 (1997 paperback) tion catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(fully available online as PDF), which contains ma-
• Manet by Françoise Cachin (1990 in French; En- terial on Manet
glish translation 1991), ISBN 0-8050-1793-3
• The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, an exhibi-
• The Drawings of Édouard Manet by Alain de Leiris tion catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(1969), ISBN 0-520-01547-9 (fully available online as PDF), which contains ma-
terial on Manet’s relationship with Degas (Manet
• The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of and Degas: A Never-Ending Dialogue p. 177-196)
Manet and His Followers by T.J. Clark (1985), ISBN
0-500-28179-3 (2000 paperback edition)
8 External links
• Hecht Museum
9.2 Images
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