Brief biography of Manet

Almost all his life, Manet's work is faced with counteraction and difficulties. His father was the head of the Department of the Ministry of Justice and prepared his son for the career of a lawyer. He was an ardent opponent of art education for his son. And the young artist has to constantly fight the requirements of an influential father, which forces him to leave the house. The study of painting in the academic style and manner of romanticism is fashionable at that time, does not attract Edward.

He constantly studies the work and work of artists of the past, visits many museums and travels a lot to Italy, Venice, Florence, Holland, Dresden, Prague, Vienna. One of the artists who had the greatest influence on Mane becomes Velazquez. He embodies accumulated knowledge and vision in his works. Edward persistently strives for recognition in Paris, but his early works are rejected by critics.

The rejection of the works, applicants for participation in the Paris salon, forced Mane to hold the exhibition called the "Salon of the outcasts". The artist had high hopes for recognizing his painting “Breakfast on the grass”, but she was criticized and caused laughter from visitors to the salon. But the picture caused the greatest attention and became the symbol of the "salon of the outcasts" of the year.

Manet achieves fame, albeit scandalous. The innovative painting Manet was subjected to fierce attacks of criticism, which considered the artist a rebel in art. Using the rethinking plots and motives of the painting of old masters, Manet sought to fill them with acute modern sound, polemically introducing into the well -known classic compositions of the modern man “Breakfast on the grass”, at the end of the xg.

Manet became close to E. Degas, K. Monet, O. Renoir and moved to pleads; Deaf and dense tones with a predominance of dark colors were replaced by a lighter and more free painting “in a boat”, G. G. The main theme of the works of Manet - the scenes of the Parisian life “Nana”, G. Mane turned to a wide variety of topics, wrote portraits, still life and landscapes, acted as a draftsman, a master of lithography and etching.

Manet's work was inhaled by a new life into French art of the 19th century and largely determined the main ways of further artistic searches in painting. With he is sick with ataxia - a violation of coordination of movements. The artist’s further life is associated with the constant development of the disease. Pictures of Eduard Mana:.