January 23, 1832 Edouard Manet was born

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Edouard Manet (January 23, 1832, Paris - April 30, 1883, ibid), French painter.

Born in a family of major officials. Drawing started back in college. Opposed destined him to a career lawyer, entered the naval school. In 1848, the campaign goes on the ship in Rio de Janeiro. In early 1850 studying at the School of Fine Arts in Paris in T. Couturat known maitre salon and academic art, known for his painting "The Romans era of decline" (1847, Louvre).

Unlike many of his contemporaries and innovators, for a long time does not stay in the workshops of professors, Manet spent a Couturat six years, learning skills and a clear picture of his modeling color, the laws of composite construction. Man has traveled extensively, visiting the Netherlands, Austria, Italy and later Germany, Spain and England.

After destroying the work performed in the workshop Couture, he decides to start working independently, is exhibited at the Paris Salon.

The first significant work of painting "Absinth Drinker" (1858-59, Well Carlsberg, Glyptotek, Copenhagen).

In the tradition of old masters executed and "Portrait of parents" (1860, private collection, Paris), executed as a conversation piece.

At the same time the artist is developing a "Spanish" theme. Thus, it creates a "Lola of Valencia (1862).

In 1863, Manet wrote painting "Luncheon on the Grass, which is called" Swimming "was exhibited at the Salon notorious outcasts to exhibit works that are not taken by the official jury. In the same year, Manet wrote "Olympia".

Examples of "pure" painting is "Flutist" (1866). In 1860-ies. are "suicide" (private collection), "Landscape with a hearse" (Metropolitan Museum), "Christ and the angels" (ibid.), "Dead torero" (National Gallery, Washington), etc.

In 1867, Manet builds its own pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris.

In 1874, the year of the first exhibition of the Impressionists, Manet was going "in the small capital of Impressionism" Argenteuil, where Monet worked and O. Renoir. But Manet did not end up taking the principles of the new art, as evidenced by the picture "Argenteuil" (1874, Museum of Fine Arts, Tournai).

Synthesis prior art searching Manet was painting "Bar" Folies-Bergère (1881-82, Courtauld Institute, London).

Immediate pupils were B. Morisot Manet, E. and M. Gozales Kesset, but he had a significant impact on the entire group of artists-impressionists.

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