Edouard Manet
Edouard Manet (born in Paris on January 23, 1832 - died in Paris on April 30, 1883) is a major French painter of the late nineteenth century. Forerunner of the modern painting he freed from academicism, Edouard Manet is wrongly considered as one of the fathers of Impressionism new techniques of color and the particular treatment of light.
It nevertheless approaches some recurring themes such as portraits, seascapes, Parisian life or even still lifes, while painting in a personal way, in a first period, scenes of genre.Refusing to study law and failing to become a naval officer, the young Edouard Manet entered the workshop of the painter Thomas Couture in 1850 where he began his training as a painter, but he left it in 1856. As early as 1860 , He presents his first paintings.
His following paintings, Lola de Valencia, Bullfighting, Lunch on the Grass or Olympia, make scandal. Manet is rejected from the official exhibitions, and plays a leading role in the "elegant bohemian". He frequented artists who admired him as Henri Fantin-Latour or Edgar Degas and men of letters such as the poet Charles Baudelaire or the novelist Émile Zola, of which he painted a still famous portrait. At that time, he painted The Fife Player (1866).
After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 in which he took part, Manet supported the Impressionists, among whom he had close friends such as Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir or Berthe Morisot who became his sister-in-law and whose famous portrait was to be noticed. He will make her, Berthe Morisot with a bouquet of violets (1872).
At their contact, he partly left the painting of workshop for the painting outdoors in Argenteuil and Gennevilliers, where it owns a house. His palette is cleared up as Argenteuil testifies in 1874. He nevertheless retains his personal approach, made up of careful composition and concerned with reality, and continues to paint many subjects, in particular places of leisure such as Au Café (1878), La Serveuse Bocks (1879) and his last great canvas. A bar at the Folies Bergère (1881-1882), but also the world of the humble (Paveurs de la Rue Mosnier, 1878) or self-portraits (Autoportrait à la palette, 1879).
He also painted still lifes, often realized for financial reasons, but nevertheless showed the great art of the painter, who succeeded in representing flowers, fruits and vegetables in a dramatic mise en scène. Manet also made portraits of women (Nana, 1877, Blonde woman with naked breasts, 1878) or of his familiar ones like the poet Stéphane Mallarmé in 1876 or Georges Clemenceau in 1879-1880.
He became more and more recognized and received the Legion of Honor on January 1, 1882. However, victim of syphilis and rheumatism, he suffered, from 1876, his left leg that will have to amputate.
Edouard Manet died of gangrene at 51 years old in 1883 and left more than four hundred paintings, pastels, sketches and watercolors. His greatest works are now visible in all the museums of the world, especially at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Some of his works
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère 1862
The Kearsarge at Boulogne1864
Lola de Valence 1862
Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Auguste Manet 1860
Ragpicker 1865–1870
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