Manet, Edouard (1832 - 1883 )

A key artist in the transition from Realism to Impressionism, Édouard Manet was born in Paris to an upper-class family. Though his father wanted him to become a lawyer, Manet was drawn only to art. Though a student of drawing since 1845, he began his formal artistic study with the academic painter Thomas Couture from 1850 to 1856. In 1856, Manet opened his own studio, working in a Realist style, but utilizing loose brush stoke and simplifying details. He portrayed everyone from beggars to bullfighters. His two paintings accepted to the Salon in 1861 were distinct from the more academic, strictly Realist works and excited young artists. In the following years, Manet completed some of his greatest masterpieces, including Luncheon on the Grass (1863) and the pivotal Olympia (1863). Both works drew from Renaissance compositions and both sparked controversy in the Paris Salon.

 

Manet became friends with the Impressionists through fellow painter Berthe Morisot, but remained independent of the group and did not exhibit with them. He still believed in the Salon, which the Impressionists had dismissed. Even so, Manet influenced the Impressionists and found inspiration in the work of Monet and Morisot. His works were a reaction to modern life, from café scenes, to social gatherings, to war. Manet contracted syphilis in his forties and developed painful side effects as the disease progressed. He received the French Légion d’honneur in 1881. Two years later, his left foot was amputated due to gangrene and he died 11 days later.

Japonisme | Impressionist and Post-impressionist Prints

Arriving in Europe as early as the 1830s, Japanese woodblock prints reverberated throughout the West. The 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle set a fire in the hearts of European art collectors. By the 1870s, ukiyo-e prints reached the height of fashion, inciting a mania amongst art enthusiasts and inspiring the brightest minds in Western art. From Monet to Degas, Van Gogh to Toulouse-Lautrec, Western artists were forever changed by the compositional daring and unfaltering beauty of ukiyo-e. Such artistic fervor for all things Japanese gave rise to Japonisme, an artistic movement that provided a fresh visual language for a changing world.

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Artist

  • Pissarro, Camille
  • Ridley, Matthew White
  • Baldridge, Cyrus LeRoy
  • Bonnard, Pierre
  • Cassatt, Mary
  • Degas, Edgar
  • Hyde, Helen
  • Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
  • Jacoulet, Paul
  • Manet, Edouard
  • Tissot, James
  • Vuillard, Edouard
  • Whistler, James McNeil

Subject

  • Birds
  • Cats & Dogs
  • Kuchi-e

Period

  • 1868 - 1912 (Meiji)

Medium

  • Etching
  • Lithograph

Size

  • Medium (ie. Oban)

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Le Corbeau sur la Buste (The Raven on the Bust of Pallas)

Manet, Edouard

Le Corbeau sur la Buste (The Raven on the Bust of Pallas)

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Les Chats

Manet, Edouard

Les Chats

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