A Bar At The Folies-Bergere
The first thing I noticed about the painting of A Bar at the Folies-Bergere is the women standing behind a bar, I especially notice the women’s facial features. She is a beautiful young women but she looks sad, has rose red cheeks and her gaze is like she is looking off into the distance. Another thing is that she has a dress on that is revealing of cleavage but she is wearing some sort of flower boutonnière to cover her breasts. As I focused on the women, it appears to look that she is standing at the bar by herself. Then I move my focus and looked to the background of the painting, I am assuming that the background behind her is a mirror, you can see that there is a man standing in front of her. So it seems that Edouard Manet is having us
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His parents finally gave in to Manet’s strong willed ways of becoming a painter and they allowed him to pursue his dreams (Courthion, P.). Manet’s paintings fit into the Realism period quite well. He broke the traditional techniques of paintings by painting subjects from events and people in his own time, he used bonded brushstrokes and sketch-like style (MindEdge, 2014). According to Pierre Courthion many of Manet’s paintings were rejected and criticized by critics for a reason that “figures were depicted in a harsh, impersonal light and placed in a woodland setting whose perspective is distinctly unrealistic”. Manet also painted pictures of nude women that caused backlash, he continued to received backlash from critics until almost the end of his career (Couthion, P.). Even though he continued to receive backlash, Manet did not let the critics stop him from painting, he finally caught a break after novelist Emile Zola, Theodore Duret and an art critic Louis-Edmond Duranty posted some positive reviews (Courthion, P.). After the positive reviews, Manet continued to paint life like portraits of people he met along with realistic settings, for example in 1882 the painting of A Bar at the Folies-Bergere (Courthion, P.). A Bar at the Folies-Bergere was to be his last modern vision of painting,
His parents finally gave in to Manet’s strong willed ways of becoming a painter and they allowed him to pursue his dreams (Courthion, P.). Manet’s paintings fit into the Realism period quite well. He broke the traditional techniques of paintings by painting subjects from events and people in his own time, he used bonded brushstrokes and sketch-like style (MindEdge, 2014). According to Pierre Courthion many of Manet’s paintings were rejected and criticized by critics for a reason that “figures were depicted in a harsh, impersonal light and placed in a woodland setting whose perspective is distinctly unrealistic”. Manet also painted pictures of nude women that caused backlash, he continued to received backlash from critics until almost the end of his career (Couthion, P.). Even though he continued to receive backlash, Manet did not let the critics stop him from painting, he finally caught a break after novelist Emile Zola, Theodore Duret and an art critic Louis-Edmond Duranty posted some positive reviews (Courthion, P.). After the positive reviews, Manet continued to paint life like portraits of people he met along with realistic settings, for example in 1882 the painting of A Bar at the Folies-Bergere (Courthion, P.). A Bar at the Folies-Bergere was to be his last modern vision of painting,