Edouard Manet: A collection of 210 paintings ( HD)
Edouard Manet: A collection of 210 paintings (HD) Description: Édouard Manet was the most important and influential artist to have heeded poet Charles Baudelaire s call to artists to become painters of modern life. Manet had an upperclass upbringing, but also led a bohemian life, and was driven to scandalize the French Salon public with his disregard for academic conventions and his strikingly modern images of urban life. He has long been associated with the Impressionists; he was certainly an important influence on them and he learned much from them himself. However, in recent years critics have acknowledged that he also learned from the Realism and Naturalism of his French contemporaries, and even from seventeenth century Spanish painting. This twin interest in Old Masters and contemporary Realism gave him the crucial foundation for his revolutionary
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