French painter (1832–1883)
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He painted a nude woman at a picnic with clothed men, stared down the fury, and cracked open what painting could be. The scandal that greeted his canvases became the hinge between the old academy and everything that came after.
Born into a well-connected upper-class French family on 23 January 1832, Manet turned away from the naval path his parents imagined and disappeared into paint. In 1863 he unveiled The Luncheon on the Grass, followed two years later by Olympia — both detonated outrage from critics and the Academy of Fine Arts, but progressive artists saw them as the breakthrough into a new style, Impressionism. Those works are now considered watershed paintings that mark the start of modern art. Over his final two decades Manet formed bonds with the great artists of his era and refined a simple, direct style th…
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Only party hacks and the ambitious, the Henry's of this world following on the heels of the Milliéres, the grotesque imitators of the Commune of 1793..
I never imagined that France could be represented by such doddering old fools, not excepting that little twit Thiers...
Goodbye my dear Suzanne [his wife], your portraits are hanging in every corner of the bedroom, so I see you first and last thing..
My dear Zola, - I am making up my mind to hold a private show. I have at least two score pictures to exhibit.
I should be going with Champfleury and Stevens, but they keep putting it off. Anyway, they are bloody bores.
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