Edouard Manet - The Link Between Realism and Impressionism
The painting above is one of my favourites by Manet. It shows clearly how love can be one-sided. Look at the guy's arm along the back of the chair.
Edouard Manet was a French painter who lived from 1832 to 1883.
Although he was upper class, he soon rejected that scene and became a painter. His paintings linked Realism and Impressionism. At the time they caused a lot of controversies because he painted real life. Nowadays, his paintings are considered to be the starting point for 'Modern Art'.
During his final 20 years (he was only 51 when he died), Edouard Manet made friends with Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro who were the Impressionist painters of the day.
Now I will show you some of my favourite paintings by Manet.
I love this painting for the incredible detail showing the things on sale at the bar and the background. The barmaid has such a French face!
This was how they relaxed all those years ago. I love their clothes but I'm not so keen on the chickens roaming near, haha.
Lastly, here is Manet in his studio. It looks very posed to me.
Hi dear @deemarshall, this has been such a beautiful experience learning about some artist I’ve never even heard of. I don’t study into these old artist lives, I recognize a lot of old paintings and artwork, but I’m clueless to who paints them. My favorite artist is Michaelangelo, I’ve loved his work since I was very young. But still I’d like to learn more about him. I never went to school for art, which you learn about such famous artists, so this that your doing is like a mini crash course in learning about the most famous artists of all times. I’m dearly enjoying it, this grandma is learning something cool yeah!
Thank you for your comments. It makes it so worthwhile when you read the post. I have some old art books from my mum who did go to art school. I'm getting ideas from those books.
So your mum went to art school? So that’s where you get your artistic talents from. It’s in the gene pool. Well you are a wonderful person, and I am very happy to have met you and have been able to help support your loving efforts in giving. You are kind and generous to so many people. You have a good soul Dee. Bless you my friend ❣️
You say wonderful things :) You make me very happy.