Reproductions Manet Eduard Oil Painting - A Bar at the Folies Bergeres 1881Oil Paintings By Manet, Eduard(1832-1883)French painter and printmaker Title: A Bar at the Folies-Bergeres 1881-82 Artist: Edouard Manet(1832-1883) Description: Manet always wanted to produce modern paintings that would be accepted in the greatest museums of France. Maybe this is why he has always been a bit ignored. Yet he deserves as much credit for the birth of contemporary art as Cezanne. This work is his preeminent masterpiece and one the the most compelling paintings ever created. The painting is made up of fragments of stories and illusions. The most intense feature of this practice of illusionism is the dynamic contrast between the courtesans and whores residing in the background and the still, calm, melancholy young woman. Biographical Information: In his own work, Manet accomplished the transition from the realism of Gustave Courbet to Impressionism. Manet broke new ground in choosing subjects from the events and appearances of his own time and in stressing the definition of painting as the arrangement of paint areas on a canvas over and above its function as representation.
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