Artist: Edouard Manet (1832 - 1883)
Nationality:French
Movement: Impressionism
Media: Painting (find the reproductions here! or email to Steven.china@gmail.com get more about this artist painting reproductions informations)
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Biography:
Manet was born in Paris to an aristocratic family which only allowed him to study art after he failed his examinations at the Naval Academy. He emerged from Courbet's Realism and is considered the founder of the Impressionist movement. He was devoted to - pure painting - to the belief that brush strokes and color patches themselves, not what they stand for, are the artist's primary reality. He broke with the classical Renaissance tradition of a picture being a window into a scene and painted without shadows and depth (The Fifer, 1866). His painting - Luncheon on the Grass -, were he created an effect of form devoid of nuances, was initially rejected from the Salon and provoked hostility from the public and the press. Manet was concerned with the properties of painting and not with the subject matter. His revolutionary painting style might have been a reaction to the challenge of photography. Photography, which was invented 25 years before, had overtaken Renaissance perspective for the representation of objective truth and now painting needed to overcome its competition with the camera. Manet accomplished this by insisting that a painted canvas is foremost a material surface covered with pigments and that the viewer must look at the canvas and not through it. He has inaugurated modern painting by offering no extrapictorial message and thus freeing art of the tyranny of subject matter. He refused to abide by the traditional rules of chiaroscuro: instead of modeling in a continuous scale of tones from dark to light, he treats the shadows as shapes in their own right, solid and clearly bounded. He reduced form to spots and patches of tone and approached abstraction by stressing pattern. By 1865 Manet had become the unofficial leader of the avantgarde painters. The - Bar of the Folies-Bergere -, one of his late masterworks, was well received when shown at the Salon. He died in Paris in 1883. Eduoard Manet was born in Paris to a well-off family. His original intentions were to join the navy, but instead he decided to study painting under Thomas Couture. Manet painted Luncheon on the Grass in 1863, which created controversy b/c of the nudity of women in a Parisian park picnicking with fully clothed men. The public viewed this as indecent and immoral. Manet used subject matter to emphasize that the importance of a piece lies in the actual painting, not the content. Manet had a significant amount of interaction with the members of the Impressionist movement, however he never exhibited with them.

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