At first glance, the biography of Edward Mansit seems quite rosy and shows us the artist a darling of fate. Born into a wealthy and respected family, who received an excellent education, he rotated in the highest circles of the world, traveled and did his favorite work — writing pictures. What else does a person need to consider himself happy? But no! Not so simple…
Edouard Manet Biography
Born January 23, 1832. Father is a lawyer, mother is the ambassador's daughter.
Характер Мане являлся интеллигентно-бунтарским.When exerting pressure on him, trying to impose his will on him, his parents did not meet with obvious resistance from his side. Without associating his future with any professions other than artistic craft, the guy secretly stood his ground. "You will be a lawyer, like your father." "Of course, mamma, it is an honor for me." Then "suddenly" fails the entrance exams. This is his characteristic way of dealing with attempts to break his will.
After an altercation with his parents, he gets his job on the sailboat and, embodying the long-held dream of Rio de Janeiro, sets sail.
По возвращении устраивается учеником к художнику the scandalous reputation of Tom Couture, the author of the acclaimed painting "The Romans of the era of decline", depicting an orgy. The relations between Kutyur and Mane are very bad, but, nevertheless, the young artist patiently studies with the master to the end.
Communicating with famous artists, poets,writers and drawing inspiration from their work, Edouard Manet develops his individual style of writing pictures. Among his friends and inspirers: Charles Baudelaire, Emile Zola, Renoir, Monet and others.
Despite the rejection by critics of his works, he was a well-known artist, accepted both among the Impressionists and among the masters of other areas of painting.
The recognition of the talent of Manet occurs at sunsethis life. In 1881, he was awarded the Salon Medal, and after a while the Order of the Legion of Honor. At that time, Edgar Mane no longer writes pictures, paralyzed due to brain ataxia. April 30, 1883, the artist leaves the sinful earth, not having undergone surgery to amputate his legs, being at the age of 51 years.
Artist's work
Edouard Manet doesn’t attempt to innovate withfirst of their independent work. But with the death of his father and the inheritance, the flight of his thoughts is liberated, not burdened by financial dependence on painting pictures. The creative freedom of the artist in 1863 shows the world the first of his scandalous masterpieces - “Breakfast on the Grass”, depicting nude feminine nature in a society of dressed men. Carried out a daring challenge to public morality, the picture lends itself to a ban in showing the official salon. She is recognized as indecent, and Edouard Manet himself is reproached for immorality for her writing.
Further work of Edward Mans does not changeits focus and continues its line. 1865 is the year of the birth of "Olympia", which caused even more merciless criticism and misunderstanding on the part of fans of the visual arts. Edouard Manet is daring to portray a nude woman in her in his modern interior, and not in the classical style of antiquity adopted by French artists. This was perceived by critics as an unheard of hypocrisy. The poor beauty, depicted on the canvas, immediately found unflattering epithets of "slut, who imagines herself the queen" and "shameless girl, who came out from under the brush of Mane."
Moreover, Olympia was written in large-scalecanvas, which is acceptable only for historical paintings, which also added fuel to the fire of the indignation of critics. The painting gathers a mass of people around it only to be ridiculed and cursed.
And now Edward Manet, whose biographyshe is pure of fornication and debauchery, who has loved only one woman all her life - Suzanna Leenhoff, acquires an extremely nasty reputation. Tired of such rumors, artist Edouard Manet leaves his homeland for a while. But on his return, he continues to work in his own way, without giving up. This is most angry critics.
Contribution to the development of art
Manet carried out a kind of coup incomprehending the fine arts of those times. A continuous experiment with color and form, he initiated the development of many new directions in French painting. He called into question the inviolability of the style of writing paintings of the late 19th - early 20th centuries: classicism, realism, impressionism. An example of audacity and novelty in the plots of paintings inspired many young artists to search for new ways to reveal images.
Edouard Manet did not stop at certainthemes of his works, alternated landscape with a portrait, still life with scenes from life. Preference in colors was also subjected to a constant experiment: dark, thick, contrast were replaced by lighter, lighter.
Recognition of the artist
Как это часто бывает, эпитеты «гениальный the artist ”,“ the great Manet ”and other favorable reviews during his life, he never heard. The real glory came to his works many years after his death, and the very beginning of it was put by the same “Olympia” - “tasteless” and “vulgar”.
Now Manet’s paintings are estimated at millions of pounds: from seven to fifty six.
Edward Manet: paintings with names of not less scandalous reputation
"Surprised nymph."The picture, the plot of which opens up the viewer with a frightened look of a nymph who is bandaging his knee, amazes art lovers even now. At the beginning of the last century, critics took the original plot of this picture as spitting in the face of classical painting.
"Suicide".Due to the sharpness of the plot, the canvas was not recognized as worthy of display at the National Salon and was gathering dust in the artist’s studio for many years. At the moment the work is in the private collection of Emil Georg Bührle in Zurich.
Masterpiece "Bathers on the Seine", made with oil,he was also banned from submitting to the public in the official Salon, was exhibited only in the Salon of the Outcast. Atypical for the time the manner of execution of the picture prompted the public to treat it with prejudice.
A similar fate haunts many artists and their work. Only after years, and sometimes centuries, they are recognized as brilliant.
