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Edouard Manet (France) 1832- |  ARTIST PROFILE
Manet's well to do bourgeois father reluctantly allowed him to study under Couture (1850-56). He then reacted very strongly against the academic history painting of his teacher and began his career as an artistic rebel with the Absinthe Drinker, a scene from the seamier side of life. His brilliant
technique, founded on the opposition of light and shadow with as little half tone as possible, on painting directly from the model with the intense immediacy, and on a restricted palette in which black was extremely important, helped him to create a new style; yet one founded on Velazquez, Goya, and
Hals, all of whom could be studied in Paris.
His work was frequently rejected by the Salon jury (he played an important part in the 1863 Salon des Refuses) and, if hung, was ill-received by critics, his friend Emile Zola almost alone in defending him. After 1870, due partly to the influence of
Berthe Morisot, he adopted the Impressionist technique and palette, abandoning the use of black and his genius for analysis and synthesis for a lighter, sweeter, color and freer handling. He also tended more to sentimental subjects. He always longed for official recognition and refused to take part
in the Impressionist exhibitions organized by Degas. Although he was friendly with Monet, Renoir, Sisley, and Pissarro he bitterly resented being coupled with them in newspaper criticisms as the leader of "Manet's gang". At the end of his life he was given the Legion of Honour and the vilification of
his works abated, chiefly because Impressionist handling and color were beginning to affect academic painting. The tragedy of his life was that he was the perfect academic painter, unrecognized and rejected by the body whose dying traditions he alone could have revived.
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ARTIST WORKS
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 | | Title: | Bock Drinkers | | Medium: | 1878, dimensions 47?30cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Walters Art Gallery | |
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 | | Title: | Luncheon in the Studio | | Medium: | 1868, dimensions 118?153cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Neue Pinakothek | |
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 | | Title: | Luncheon on the Grass | | Medium: | 1863, dimensions 210?270cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Musee d'Orsay | |
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 | | Title: | Manet's Mother in the Garden | | Medium: | 1880, dimensions 82?65cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Private collection | |
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 | | Title: | Portrait of Emile Zola | | Medium: | 1868, dimensions 146?114cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Musee d'Orsay | |
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