Édouard Manet

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Biography of Éduard Manet

, is a well known painter in France 19th century. He is a leading figure of Impressionism as well as one of the founders of it in 19th century. He deeply affected some fresh painters such as Monet, Cézanne and van Gogh, though he had never attended any exhibition of Impresionism. Manet’s chief achievements are in figure paintings and a reflection of influence from Japanese Yamato-e and Spanish art style. Manet paintings boldly adopted bright colors and abandoned medium tone that is a good expression of light and colors of Impressionism. Manet created the style of Impressionism and was regarded as a famous and important painter playing a connecting role of the previous and later style. So, oil painting lovers are very interested in Éduard Manet biography, and reproductions of his paintings for sale in gallery are prevalent.

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Biography of Édouard Manet

French Impressionist painter, printmaker and draftsman
born 23 January 1832 - died 20 April 1883
Born in: Paris (Département de Ville de Paris, Ile-de-France, France).
Died in: Paris (Département de Ville de Paris, Ile-de-France, France)

Also known as: Édouard Manet.
Student of: Thomas Couture (1815-1879).
Teacher of: Eva Gonzalès (1849-1883).
Brother-in-law of: Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)

French painter and printmaker who in his own famous paintings 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 artists who later formed the nucleus of the Impressionists. His other notable works include Olympia (1863) and A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882). All of these famous Édouard Manet paintings for sale on this site.

MANET, ÉDUARD (1832-1883), French painter, regarded as the most important master of Impressionism (q.v.), was born in Paris on the 23rd of January 1832. After spending some time under the tuition of the Abbé Poiloup, Édouard Manet entered the College Rollin, where his passion for drawing led him to neglect all his other lessons.
His studies finished in 1848, he was placed on board the ship Guadeloupe, voyaging to Rio de Janeiro. On his return Edouard Manet first studied in Couture's studio (1851), where his independence often infuriated his master.
For six years Manet was an intermittent visitor to the studio, constantly taking leave to travel, and going first to Cassel, Dresden, Vienna and Munich, and afterwards to Florence, Rome and Venice, where he made some stay. Some important drawings date from this period, and one picture, A Nymph Surprised.
Then, after imitating Couture, more or less, in The Absinthe-drinker (1866), and Courbet in The Old Musician, Édouard Manet devoted himself almost exclusively to the study of the Spanish masters in the Louvre. A group was already gathering round him: Whistler, Legros, and Fantin-Latour haunted his studio in the Rue Guyot.
His Spaniard playing the Guitar, in the Salon of 1861, excited much animadversion. Delacroix alone defended Manet, but, this notwithstanding, his Fifer of the Guard and Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) were refused by the jury. Then the Salon des Refusés was opened, and round Manet a group was formed, including [Felix] Bracquemond, Legros, Jongkind, Whistler, Harpignies and Fantin-Latour, the writers Zola, [Edmond] Duranty and [Théodore] Duret, and Astruc the Sculptor.
In 1863, when an amateur, M. Martinet, lent an exhibition-room to Édouard Manet, the painter exhibited fourteen pictures; and then, in 1864, contributed again to the Salon The Angels at the Tomb and A Bullfight. Of this picture Manet afterwards kept nothing but the toreador in the foreground, and it is now known as The Dead Man.
In 1865 sent to the Salon Christ reviled by the Soldiers and the famous paintings Olympia, which was hailed with mockery and laughter. It represents a girl body woman reclining on a couch, behind which is seen the head of a negl-ess who carries a bunch of flowers. A black cat at her feet emphasizes the whiteness of the sheet on which the woman lies. This work (now in the Louvre) was presented to the Luxembourg by a subscription started by Claude Monet (1890). It was hung in 1897 among the Caillebotte collection, which included the Balcony, and a study of a female head called Angelina. This production, of a highly independent individuality, secured his exclusion from the Salon of 1866, so that Édouard Manet determined to exhibit his paintings in a place apart during the Great Exhibition of 1867.
In a large gallery in the Avenue de l'Alma, half of which was occupied by Courbet, Manet hung no fewer than fifty paintings. Only one important picture was absent, The Execution of the Emperor Maximilian; its exhibition was prohibited by the authorities. From that time, in spite of the fierce hostility of some adversaries, his energy and that of his supporters began to gain the day.
His Young Girl (Salon of 1868) was justly appreciated, as well as the portrait of Lola; but the Balcony and the Breakfast (1869) were as severely handled as the Olympia had been.
In 1870 Eduard Manet exhibited The Music Lesson and a portrait of Mile E. Gonzales. Not long before the Franco-Prussian War, Manet, finding himself in the country, with a friend, for the first time discovered the true value of open air to the effects of painting in his picture The Garden, which gave rise to the open air or plein air school. After fighting as a gunner, Edouard Manet returned to his family in the Pyrenees, where he painted The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama. His Bon Bock (1873) created a furoré.

But in 1875, as in 1869, there was a fresh outburst of abuse, this time of the Railroad, Polichinelle, and Argenteuil, and the jury excluded the artist, who for the second time arranged an exhibition in his studio.
In 1877 his Hamlet was admitted to the Salon, but Nana was rejected. The following paintings were exhibited at the Salon of 1881: In the Conservatory, In a Boat, and the portraits of [Henri] Rochefort and Proust; and the Cross of the Legion of Honor was conferred on the painter on the 31st of December in that year. Manet died in Paris on the 20th of April 1883.
Besides his pictures, a number of pastels and engravings. Edouard Manet illustrated Les Chats by Champfleury, and Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven.

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

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Analysis of Best Known Paintings by Éduard Manet

Manet Paintings - Luncheon on the Grass
In 1863, 31-year-old Manet exhibited Manet Luncheon on the Grass in Salon des Refuses. No matter the subjects or the expressive methods are all oppoesed to that of the dominant academic principles. This painting caused an uproar in Paris and was attacked by Napoleon III and the public, but it gained recognition from Impressionist painters such as Zola. In Luncheon on the Grass, nude woman are put together with well-dressed gentlemen. He challenged the classical painting and made an innovation: getting rid of the delicate brushwork and plenty of brown tone, used bright colors and color chunks instead. These all makes academism can't stand.

In the Manet painting Luncheon on the Grass, the nude woman are looking forward, while the two gentlemen are chatting. Still lives including the woman’s clothes, a basket of fruits and a piece of bread, are placed in front of them. A woman is sitting beside the creek in the background. Being cautious about choosing the colors for Luncheon on the Grass, he tried to create a bright effect. The interlacing of the light and shadow shows that he has noticed the change of light. Therefore, Manet Luncheon on the Grass is regarded as the pioneer of Impressionism. Actually, it is between Impression and Realism.

Manet Famous Paintings - A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
In 1882, Manet exhibited the last oil painting during his lifetime A Bar at the Folies-Bergère in salon. The exhibition enjoyed an astonishing success and won him “The Legion of Honour”. Manet in sickness said: “it is too late.” On April the 30th, the next year, Manet passed away. A Bar at the Folies-Bergère is the most creative in Manet paintings. The painter used the effect of light to create the atmosphere around the young woman. The young woman is standing facing the audience, the decorations, wine bottles, and flowers in the vase attach a dreamlike expression to her. The image of the woman is among numerous phantoms, brimming with charming beauty. In the mirror, we can see the woman talking with customers as well as other customers in the bar. In the painting of A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Manet adopted dreamlike light and shadow to express the reality, which were inaccessible for other painters.

Manet Paintings for Sale -Olympia
Another Manet painting on canvas Olympia exhibited in 1865 was violently attacked by critics and the press as “an utmost shame” because it rebelled against the rigid orthodoxy. So Manet was forced to move to Spain. In 1890, the painting Olympia was bought to raise donations and gave it to France as a gift. Now it is displayed in Louvre.
The whole picture of Olympia possesses an extraordinary lightness and radiance. They are in the format of a piece of bright relief sculpture setting in a deep color background. The nude woman emerging as a relief sculpture and then turns into solid body. Olympia reflects Manet’s flexible observation methods. He turned the technique into idealist and proposed the principle of free observation methods, which is accepted by the contemporary art and regarded as the foundation and pioneer.