Edouard Manet E-Book

Catherine Russell

• Herausgeber: Catherine Russell
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Once classified as an Impressionist, Manet has subsequently been regarded as a Realist who influenced and was influenced by the Impressionist painters of the 1870s, though he never exhibited with them nor adopted fully their ideas and procedures. His painting is notable for its brilliant prima vista painterly technique. In his relatively short career he evolved from an early style marked by dramatic light-dark contrasts and based on Spanish 17th-century painting to high-keyed, freely brushed compositions whose content bordered at times on Symbolism.

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Edouard Manet

By Catherine Russell

Foreword and Annotationsby Catherine Russell

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Copyright © 2015 by Catherine Russell

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Foreword

French painter and printmaker, Edouard Manet was the eldest son of Auguste Manet, a high-ranking city servant in the Ministere de la Justice, and Eugenie-Desiree Fournier, the daughter of a French diplomat posted to Stockholm. He was born on January 23, 1832, in Paris.

Manet intended to become a naval officer, and embarked for Rio de Janeiro aboard a trainee-ship. On his return to Le Havre he failed the entrance exam to the Ecole Navale, and in 1850 he started a career in art in Paris. He studied with the French academic painter Thomas Couture.