Word: manet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Claude Monet will be installed in the impressionist galleries for the first time in nearly 20 years. No institution outside of France holds a larger collection of paintings by Monet than the MFA. The installation will be compeimented by a selection of works by otherimpressionists such as Renoir, Degas, Manet andGauguin...
...Monet will be installed in the impressionist galleries for the first time in nearly 20 years. No institution outside of France holds a larger collection of paintings by Monet than the MFA. The installation will be complimented by a selection of works by other impressionists such as Renoir, Degas, Manet and Gauguin...
...Manet thought "the most wounding insult that can be made to an artist" was to be called a history painter -- but he wanted to paint history too, though of a more recent sort: the killing of the Mexican Emperor Maximilian; and the battle between two Civil War ships, the Alabama and the Kearsarge, in French waters. The latter came out as a sort of imaginary journalism, rapidly painted to catch the urgency of a moment that, in fact, the painter hadn't seen. And though Manet was not notable for his piety in real life, he tried to reinvigorate biblical...
...living artist Manet and his peers respected very much, and who exercised a large subliminal influence on modernism though he would never have claimed to be "moderne" himself, was Puvis de Chavannes. Traces of Puvis's flat, fresco-like narratives kept turning up in Degas; long afterward, Picasso would base the scrawny, mannered figures of his Blue Period on Puvis, and there even seems to be a foretaste of Guernica in the head of the cow, lowing in pain at the sky, in Puvis's War, 1867, included in this show...
...much the decision to paint the world "as they saw it" that made Impressionism; it was the way of painting it, which came out of Manet and reached its most brilliant expression as color in Monet. Manet perfected a graphic style in which the half tones that offered smooth transitions between high light and deep dark were suppressed; hence the critics' complaints of sketchiness and flatness. But this engaged the eye more, forcing it to assemble continuity from extremes of light and dark...