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Manet is one of the most famous artists from the second half of the nineteenth century linked to the impressionists, although he was not really one of them. He had great influence on French painting partly because of the choice he made for his subjects from everyday life, the use of pure colours, and his fast and free technique. He made, in his own work, the transition between Courbet's Realism and the work of the impressionists. Born a high bourgeois, he chose to become a painter after failing the entry to the Marine School. He studied with Thomas Couture, an Academic painter, but it was thanks to the numerous travels he made around Europe from 1852 that he started to find out what would become his own style. His first paintings were mostly portraits and genre scenes, inspired by his love for Spanish masters like Velázquez and Goya. In 1863 he presented his masterpiece Luncheon on the Grass at the Salon des Refusés. His work started a fight between the defenders of Academic art and the young "refusés" artists. Manet became the leader of this new generation of artists. From 1864, the official Salon accepted his paintings, still provoking loud protests over works such as Olympia in 1865. In 1866, the writer Zolá wrote an article defending Manet's work. At that time, Manet was friends with all the future great impressionist masters: Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne, and he influenced their work, even though he cannot strictly be counted as one of them. In 1874 indeed, he refused to present his paintings in the First Impressionist Exhibition. His last appearance in the official Salon was in 1882 with A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, one of his most famous works. Suffering from gangrene during the year 1883, he painted flower still-lifes until he became too weak to work. He died leaving behind a great number of drawings and paintings.
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Table of contents
1Manet
2Biography
3by the French Government.
4at the Folies-Bergère, at the Salon.
5than Monet, Bazille, Renoir, and Sisely, those painters
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61858-1859 Oil on canvas, 180.5 x 105.6 cm Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
7the Havre and Guadeloupe as a sixteen-year-old
81858-1859 Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 54.5 cm Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
9Antonin Proust in 1850, his first year with Couture.
10consequently notable in many of Manet’s paintings. The
11Fishing
12idea for his own variation on the classical nude, his future
131860 Oil on canvas, 72 x 92 cm Private collection
14model among his living contemporaries: Eugène
15Portrait of a Man
16Spanish Cavaliers
17and to reproductions.
181860 Oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
19In Young Woman Reclining in Spanish Costume (Jeune
20Femme couchée en costume espagnol, Yale University Art
21Woman at Her Toilette
22the young Russian girl with milky white skin somewhere
23Miss Victorine Meurent in the Costume of an Espada
24areas of colour and beautiful contrasts.” Among the
25The Old Musician
26Espagnol
27Ballet Shoes
28The Duchess of Alba (Hispanic Society of America, New
29c. 1862 Watercolour, 21 x 11.4 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
30Lola and Music in the Tuileries Gardens, “in their
31For example, on the surface of Lola’s skirt, which he
321862 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 118.1 cm National Gallery, London
331862 Oil on canvas, 123 x 92 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
34of Comandant Lejosne, a friend of Manet’s; the woman
35Portrait of Victorine Meurent
36brushwork more expressive than that of the old masters.
37On 1 May, 1863, for the first time in the history
38simultaneously: the traditional Salon and the Salon des
391863 Oil on canvas, 208 x 264 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
40Giorgione, called Un Concert Champêtre (The Pastoral
411863 Oil on canvas, 130.5 x 190 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
42Battle of the Kearsage and the Alabama
43Stem of Peony and Secateurs
441864 Oil on canvas, 56.8 x 46.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
45the summation of all his youthful work.
461864 Oil on canvas, 93 x 70 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
47vague) and Cabanel’s The Birth of Venus (Vénus, Musée
481864 Oil on canvas, 38 x 46 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
49Unlike Titian’s Vénus d’Urbino, which Manet greatly
50The Dead Toreador
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