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Édouard Manet

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Édouard Manet (portrait by Nadar).
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Édouard Manet (portrait by Nadar).

Édouard Manet (January 23, 1832 – April 30, 1883) was a French painter. His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia engendered great controversy, and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism--today they are considered watershed paintings which mark the genesis of modern art. One of the first 19th century artists to approach modern-life subjects, his art bridged the gap between Realism and Impressionism.

Biography

Early life

Édouard Manet was born in Paris. His mother, Eugénie-Desirée Fournier, was the goddaughter of the Swedish crown prince, Charles Bernadotte, from whom the current Swedish monarchs are descended, and his father, Auguste Manet, was a French judge. His father wanted him to also pursue a career in law. His uncle, Charles Fournier, encouraged him to pursue painting and often took young Manet to the Louvre.[1]

From 1850 to 1856, after failing the examination to join the navy, Manet studied under the academic painter Thomas Couture. In his spare time he copied the old masters in the Louvre. He visited Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, during which time he absorbed the influences of the Dutch painter Frans Hals, and the Spanish artists Diego Velázquez and Francisco José de Goya.

Manet adopted the then current style of realism initiated by Gustave Courbet, painting subjects such as beggars, singers, gypsies, people in cafés, and bullfights. He produced few religious, mythological, or historical paintings, and these mostly in his youth. Noteworthy exceptions include his "Christ Mocked" in the Art Institute of Chicago, and "Christ with Angels" in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Music in the Tuileries

Music in the Tuileries, 1862.
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Music in the Tuileries, 1862.

Music in the Tuileries is an early example of Manet's painterly style, inspired by Hals and Velázquez, and a harbinger of his life-long interest in the subject of leisure. While the picture was not regarded as finished by some,[1] the suggested atmosphere imparts a sense of what it was like in the Tuileries gardens at the time; one can imagine the music and conversation. Here Manet has included his friends: Artists, authors and musicians take part; fittingly, there is even a self-portrait.

Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe)

Main article: The Luncheon on the Grass
The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe). 1863.
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The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe). 1863.

One of Manet's early major pieces is The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe). The Paris Salon rejected it for exhibition in 1863 but he exhibited it at the Salon des Refusés (Salon of the rejected) later in the year. (Emperor Napoleon III initiated The Salon des Refusés, after the Paris Salon rejected more than 4,000 paintings in 1863.) The painting's juxtaposition of dressed men and a nude woman was controversial, as was its abbreviated, sketch-like handling — an innovation that distinguished Manet from Courbet. However, Manet's composition is derived from Marcantonio Raimondi's engraving The Judgment of Paris (c. 1510) after a drawing by Raphael.[1]

Olympia

Main article: Olympia (painting)
Olympia, 1863.
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Olympia, 1863.

As he had in the Luncheon on the Grass, Manet again paraphrased a respected work by a Renaissance artist in the painting Olympia (1863), a nude portrayed in a style reminiscent of early studio photographs, but whose pose was based on Titian's Venus of Urbino (1538). The painting was controversial partly because the nude is wearing some small items of clothing such as an orchid in her hair, a bracelet, a ribbon around her neck, and mule slippers, all of which accentuated her nakedness. This modern Venus' body is thin, counter to prevailing standards; thin women were not considered attractive at the time, and the painting's lack of idealism rankled. A fully dressed servant is featured, exploiting the same juxtaposition as in Luncheon on the Grass.

Manet's Olympia was also considered shocking because of the manner in which she acknowledges the viewer. She defiantly looks out as her servant offers flowers from one of her male suitors. Although her hand rests on her leg, hiding her pubic area, the reference to traditional female virtue is ironic; the notion of modesty is notoriously absent in this work. The black cat at the foot of the bed strikes a rebellious note in contrast to that of the Urbino's dog. Manet's uniquely frank (and largely unpopular) depiction of a self-assured prostitute was rejected by the Paris Salon of 1863. At the same time, his notoriety translated to popularity in the French avant-garde community. As with Luncheon on the Grass, the painting raised the issue of prostitution within contemporary France and the roles of women within society. [1]

Life and times

The roughly painted style and photographic lighting in these works was seen as specifically modern, and as a challenge to the Renaissance works Manet updated. His work is considered 'early modern', in part because of the black outlining of figures, which draws attention to the surface of the picture plane and the material quality of paint.

He became friends with the impressionists Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Paul Cézanne, and Camille Pissarro, in part through his sister-in-law Berthe Morisot, who was a member of the group. Eva Gonzalès was his only formal student.

Unlike the core impressionist group, Manet consistently believed that modern artists should seek to exhibit at the Paris Salon rather than abandon it. Though his own work influenced and anticipated the impressionist style, he resisted involvement in impressionist exhibitions, partly because he did not wish to be seen as the representative of a group identity, and partly because of his disapproval of their opposition to the salon system. Nevertheless, when Manet was excluded from the International exhibition of 1867, he set up his own exhibition.

Self-portrait with palette.
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Self-portrait with palette.

He was influenced by the impressionists, especially Monet, and to an extent Morisot. Their impact is seen in Manet's use of lighter colors, but he retained his distinctive use of blocks of black, uncharacteristic of impressionist painting. He painted many outdoor (plein air) pieces, but always returned to what he considered the serious work of the studio.

Throughout his life, though resisted by art critics, Manet could number as his champions Émile Zola, who supported him publicly in the press, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Charles Baudelaire, who challenged him to depict life as it was. Manet, in turn, drew or painted each of them.

Cafe scenes

The Cafe Concert, 1878.
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The Cafe Concert, 1878.

Manet's paintings of cafe scenes are observations of social life in 19th century Paris. People are depicted drinking beer, listening to music, flirting, reading, or waiting. Many of these paintings were based on sketches done on the spot. He often visited the Brasserie Reichshoffen on boulevard de Rochechourt, upon which he based At the Cafe in 1878. Several people are at the bar, and one woman confronts the viewer while others wait to be served. Such depictions represent the painted journal of a flâneur. These are painted in a style which is loose, referencing Hals and Velázquez; yet they capture the mood and feeling of Parisian night life. They are painted snapshots of bohemianism.

In Corner of a Cafe Concert, a man smokes while behind him a waitress serves drinks. In The Beer Drinkers a woman enjoys her beer in the company of a friend. In The Cafe Concert a sophisticated gentleman sits at a bar while a waitress stands resolutely in the background, sipping her drink. In The Waitress, a serving girl pauses for a moment behind a seated customer smoking a pipe, while a ballet dancer, with arms extended as she is about to turn, is on stage in the background.

Manet also sat at the restaurant on the Avenue de Clichy called Pere Lathuille's, which had a garden as well as the eating area. One of the paintings he produced here was At Pere Lathuille's, in which a man displays an unrequited interest in a female diner.

In Le Bon Bock, a large, cheerful, bearded man sits with a pipe in one hand and a glass of beer in the other, looking straight at the viewer.

Paintings of social activities

Racing at Longchamp, 1864.
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Racing at Longchamp, 1864.

Manet also painted the upper class enjoying more formal social activities. In Masked ball at the Opera, Manet shows a crowd of people enjoying a party. Men stand with top hats and long black suits while talking to women with masks and costumes. It is a crowded atmosphere of an enjoyable activity. He included portraits of his friends in this picture.

Manet depicted other popular activities in his work. In Racing at Longchamp, an unusual perspective is employed to underscore the furious energy of racehorses as they rush towards the viewer. In Skating Manet shows a well dressed woman in the foreground, while others skate behind her. Always there is the sense of active urban life continuing behind the subject, extending outside the frame of the canvas.

In "View of the International Exhibition", soldiers relax, seated and standing; prosperous couples are talking. There is a gardener, a boy with a dog, a woman on horseback--in short, a sample of the classes and ages of the people of Paris.

Politics

The Prints and Drawings Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) [1] has a watercolour/gouache (The Barricade) by Manet depicting a summary execution of Communards by Versailles troops based on a lithograph of the "Execution of Maximilian" The "Execution" was one of Manet's largest paintings, and judging by the full-scale preparatory study, one which the painter regarded as most important. Its subject is the execution by Mexican firing squad of a Hapsburg emperor who had been installed by Napoleon III. As an indictment of formalized slaughter it looks back to Goya, and anticipates Picasso's Guernica.

In January 1871 Manet travelled to Oloron-Sainte-Marie in the Pyrenees. In his absence his friends added his name to the "Féderation des artistes" (see:Courbet) of the Paris Commune. Manet stayed away from Paris, most probably till after the Semaine Sanglante. In a letter to Berthe Morisot at Cherbourg (June 10,1871) he writes :" We came back to Paris a few days ago...".(the semaine sanglante ended on 28 May).

On 18 March 1871 he wrote to his (confederate) friend Félix Braquemond in Paris about his visit to Bordeaux, the provisory seat of the French National Assembly of the Third French Republic where Emile Zola introduced him to the sites: " I never imagined that France could be represented by such doddering old fools, not excepting that little twit Thiers..." (some colorful language unsuitable at social events followed, see "Manet by himself" 1991/2004). If this could be interpreted as support of the Commune a following letter to Braquemond (March 21, 1871) expressed his idea more clearly: " Only party hacks and the ambitious, the Henrys of this world following on the heels of the Milliéres, the grotesque imitators of the Commune of 1793..." He knew the communard Lucien Henry to have been a former painters model and Millière, an insurance agent. "What an encouragement all these bloodthirsty caperings are for the arts! But there is at least one consolation in our misfortunes: that we're not politicians and have no desire to be elected as deputies." (the letters are published in Julliet Wilson-Bareau ed "Manet by himself" UK : Times Warner, 2004)

Paris

Manet depicted many scenes of the streets of Paris in his works. The Rue Mosnier Decked with Flags depicts red, white and blue pennants covering buildings on either side of the street--another painting of the same title features a one- legged man walking with crutches. Again depicting the same street, but this time in a different context, is Rue Monsnier with Pavers, in which men repair the roadway while people and horses move past.

The Railway, which is also widely known as the Gare Saint-Lazare, was painted in 1873. The setting is the urban landscape of Paris in the late 19th century. A young lady (Victorine Meurent, also the model for "Olympia") sits before an iron fence, alongside a little girl who watches a train pass beneath them. Instead of choosing the traditional natural view as background for an outdoor scene, Manet opts for the iron grating which “ boldly stretches across the canvas” (Gay 106). The only evidence of the train is its white cloud of steam. In the distance, modern apartment buildings are glimpsed. This arrangement compresses the foreground into a narrow focus. The traditional convention of deep space is ignored. When the painting was first exhibited at the official Paris Salon of 1874:

"Visitors and critics found its subject baffling, its composition incoherent, and its execution sketchy. Caricaturists ridiculed Manet’s picture, in which only a few recognized the symbol of modernity that it has become today”(Dervaux 1).

The painting is currently displayed in Washington D.C. in the National Gallery of Art.

Late Works

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère).  :Main article: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère  1882. Édouard Manet.
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A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère).  :
Main article: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
1882. Édouard Manet.

He painted his last major work, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère), in 1881–1882 and it hung in the Salon that year.

In 1875 a French edition of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven included lithographs by Manet and translation by Mallarmé.[2] [3]

In 1881, with pressure from his friend Antonin Proust, the French government awarded Manet the Légion d'honneur.

Private Life

In 1863 Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff, a Dutch-born piano teacher his age with whom he had been romantically involved for about 10 years. (Leenhoff had been initially employed by his father, Auguste, to teach Manet and his younger brother piano; she may also have been Auguste's mistress). In 1852 Leenhoff gave birth, out of wedlock, to a son, Leon Koella Leenhoff.

After the death of his father in 1862, Manet married Suzanne, and eleven-year-old Leon Leenhoff - who may have been either his (or his father's) son by her - posed often for Manet, most famously as the "Boy with a Sword" (1861).

Death

Manet died of untreated syphilis (contracted in his forties), which caused him considerable pain and partial paralysis from locomotor ataxia in the years prior to his death. His left foot was amputated because of gangrene - an operation from which he never recovered, dying 11 days later.

He died in Paris in 1883, at the age of 51, and is buried in the city's Cimetière de Passy.

In 2000, one of his paintings sold for over $20 million.

Manet's Tomb at Passy Cemetery.
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Manet's Tomb at Passy Cemetery.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Ross King. The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism. New York: Waller & Company, 2006 ISBN 0802714668.

Further reading

  • Edouard Manet: Rebel in a Frock Coat by Beth Archer Brombert (1996), ISBN 0316109479 and ISBN 0226075443 (1997 paperback)
  • Manet by Françoise Cachin (1990 in French; English translation 1991), ISBN 0805017933
  • The Drawings of Edouard Manet by Alain de Leiris (1969), ISBN 0520015479
  • The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers by TJ Clark (1985), ISBN 0500281793 (2000 paperback edition)
  • Manet: Painter of Modern Life by Françoise Cachin (1995), ISBN 050030050X

Short introductory works:

  • Manet by Gilles Neret (2003; Taschen), ISBN 3822819492
  • Manet by John Richardson (1992; Phaidon Colour Library), ISBN 071482755X
  • Ross King. The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism. New York: Waller & Company, 2006 ISBN 0802714668.

External links

  • The Impressionsts: Manet at biography.com
  • Édouard Manet at Olga's Gallery
  • Works by Édouard Manet at Project Gutenberg

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