The French Painter Edouard Manet

The French Painter Edouard Manet

Table of Contents

1. Introduction --------------------- 1

2. From Renaissance to Impressionism --------------------- 2

3. Manet 's place in the history of art --------------------- 4

4. Manet: life and legacy --------------------- 9

5. References --------------------- 15

List of Images

Olympia ------------------- 12 Le Bouquet de Lilas ------------------- 12 The Fifer ------------------- 13 Le Dejeuner sur l 'Herbe ------------------- 13
The Mocking of Christ ------------------- 14
The Absinthe Drinker ------------------- 14
1. Introduction

The dramatically direct approach employed by French painter Edouard Manet (1832-83) started a revolution in the art world and served as a source of inspiration to other artists, most notably the Impressionists.

Owing to the Impressionistic movement, the artistic culture of late nineteenth-century France was rich and diverse. Although earlier artists such as the English painter William Turner (1775 -1851) had already shown great interest in the qualities of light, the origins of impressionism are usually traced to the realist movement and one of its chief representatives in France, Eduouard Manet. Like his Impressionist friends (with whom he never exhibited, not really considering himself an Impressionist), Manet gravitated toward everyday subjects and loose brushwork. Like them, too, he was a rebel who dared to scorn the

References: 1. Introduction The dramatically direct approach employed by French painter Edouard Manet (1832-83) started a revolution in the art world and served as a source of inspiration to other artists, most notably the Impressionists Olympia (1863) – the controversial ground-breaking painting of Manet Le Bouquet de Lilas (Manet 's last pictures included some small and simple, yet masterful flower pieces.) The Fifer, 1866 The Mocking of Christ, 1865 Manet 's first official painting, The Absinthe Drinker, 1859 Altabe, Joan B. Art: Behind the Scenes--One Hundred Old and Modern Masters, In and Out of Their Studios. Port Orchard, WA : Windstorm Creative, 2005 Brombert, Beth Archer Cahill, H. Art in America in Modern Times. Salem, NH : Ayer Publishing, 1934 Cheney, Sheldon Fried, Michael. Manet 's Modernism Or the Face of Painting in the 1860s. Chicago, Illinois : University of Chicago Press, 1996) Gardner, Helen; Kleiner, Fred S., Mamiya, Christin J Jackson, Holbrook. The Eighteen Nineties: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1923 Lallemand, Henri Locke, Nancy. Manet and the Family Romance. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2001 Manet, Edouard Meyers, Jeffrey. Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt. Orlando, Florida : Harcourt Books, 2005 Néret, Gilles