Stellar results for Christie's mask deep fault lines in market Jul 25, 2008
Painted in 1995, its realism, its handling of light and its brushwork go back to a tradition embodied 130 years ago by Edouard Manet. The Freud aside, the works that allowed Christie's to post the biggest scores are unlikely to be available for much longer in "Post War & Contemporary Art." Along with this message comes the warning that truly contemporary art, i.e. by artists who are alive and kicking, does not come anywhere near the top of the artistic greasy pole. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Impressionist art by women at San Francisco museum Jun 3, 2008
Morisot was married to the brother of painter Edouard Manet and was close friends with Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Cassatt, the only American among the four, was friends with Edgar Degas and is known for her portraits of mothers and children. (Yahoo News)
Gardens of Modern French Masters Jun 2, 2008
Painters Claude Monet, Edouard Manet and Gustave Caillebotte depicted many beautiful elements of nature in their works, and they were also avid gardners ... Painter Edouard Manet was friends with many of the French Impressionists, though he never formally allied himself with the group and did not exhibit with them. (Suite101.com)
The Impressionists: A Preview May 29, 2008
The Races at Longchamp (1866) by Edouard Manet (1832-1883). Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect) (1890-91) and Water Lily Pond (1900) by Claude Monet (1840-1926). (Suite101.com)
Berthe Morisot and Edouard Manet May 27, 2008
Artist Berthe Morisot held her own among the male-dominated Impressionists, and her friendship with fellow painter Edouard Manet would influence her career and his own. Berthe Morisot first met painter Edouard Manet in 1868 when they were introduced by yet another painter and mutual acquaintance, Henri Fantin-Latour ... However, Berthe Morisot s confident use of strong color and line show how she took Edouard Manet s influence and made it her own. (Suite101.com)
Gallery Ghost by Anna Nilsen May 22, 2008
Edouard Manet (The Railway). Amedeo Modigliani (Gypsy Woman with Baby). (Suite101.com)
French Picnic Lesson May 20, 2008
In 1863, Edouard Manet created a stir with D;jeuner sur l herbe (Lunch on the Grass). This painting inspired similar works by Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, and Claude Monet. (Suite101.com)
Critic's Log: 20 turning points in art Dec 13, 2007
14: Edouard Manet, The Fife Player, as the birth of that Modernism, flat, ironic, oblique. 15: Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
* New insights into artists' failing vision Dec 6, 2007
"It is so painful to see him in the morning," wrote Julie Manet, a niece of Edouard Manet. "He does not have the strength to turn a doorknob.". (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Legendary Liquor Coming To Bay Area Store Shelves Dec 6, 2007
Absinthe was the drink of choice of 19th and 20th century artists and writers such as Vincent Van Gogh, Emile Zola, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Rimbaud, Ernest Hemmingway and Pablo Picasso. Vincent Van Gough reportedly sliced off his ear while drinking it, and legend has it, the drink turned normal people into homicidal maniacs. (NBC 11, CA)
In Which World Gallery Nov 12, 2007
" It resides in the Frick Collection in New York. The Haywain by John Constable In this painting (1821) the mill belonged to Constable s father and the house on the left to a neighbor, Willy Lott, who supposedly never left the place for more than four days in his lifetime. Lott s cottage has survived to today virtually intact. Today it is revered as one of the greatest British paintings and hangs in the National Gallery, London. The Kleptomaniac by Theodore Gricault This (1822) is one of a... (Suite101.com)
Edward Hopper: Washington, D.C. exhibit peers into world of iconic artist Sep 19, 2007
Traveling through Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin after school, Hopper was impressed with modernists like Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet. Like those painters, Hopper would come to essentially address the reality of contemporary urban life. (Carroll County Times)
Portrait by Lucian Freud earns £7.86 million at record-setting Christie's sale Jun 22, 2007
Christie's cataloguer optimistically drew a parallel with Edouard Manet, and went so far as to reproduce three of the French master's portraits. A more apt comparison might be with Socialist Realism much vaunted in the defunct Soviet Union. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
More of this story May 30, 2007
Centering the exhibit around Edouard Manet s 1867 painting Execution of the Emperor Maximilian, Picasso s Rape of the Sabine Women, and Goya s Disasters of War, she added 17 contemporary works. There really is this undercurrent of discontent going on right now, and I thought it would be great to look at it from different perspectives, said Brutvan, who has included film and video in the exhibit. (Brockton Enterprise, MA)
Salon des Acceptances May 11, 2007
Among those rejected artists were Edouard Manet, James Whistler, Paul Cezanne and Camille Pissarro. This year's Ellarslie Open received 466 entries, 64 percent more than last year's, and had to be whittled down to 112. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
The Art of Impressionism Mar 26, 2007
A history and overview of the Impressionism movement started by Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro ... Joined by such noted artists as Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, they created what was dubbed by critic Louis Leroy Impressionism, inspired by the title of Monet s work. (Suite101.com)
Beauty Is Back!: Mar 15, 2007
Image of Olympia (1863) by Edouard Manet, courtesy Wikipedia. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forumWhat did you think of this article. (Slate)
Admired worldwide, obscure on campus Mar 8, 2007
Meanwhile, the Impressionism and post-Impressionism collections boast original works by Claude Monet, Edouard Manet and Henri Matisse. Monet's "Waterlilies and Japanese Bridge" depicts a bridge over a cascading stream in green, blue and pink. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
France parts with prized art for N.O. exhibit Mar 4, 2007
Called Femme, Femme, Femme, the show features portraits of women in French society, mostly in the mid- to late-1800s, painted by Edouard Manet, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Renoir, Honore Daumier, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Also among the paintings is Leon Cogniet's mid-1800s portrait of Madame Berbe-Nicole Clicquot, whose family first made the world renowned Veuve Clicquot champagne. (KSLA.com, LA)
Paper riches are solid gold Jan 27, 2007
The list of works on paper reads like a who's who of art, with studies by Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Edward Hopper, Edouard Manet, Pierre-August Renoir, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Winslow Homer in the collection. Exhibition hours are 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday; 9:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday; 1-4 p.m. Sunday at the museum, 445 N. Park Ave., Winter Park. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
More on the exhibit Jan 22, 2007
Was Edouard Manet an Impressionist. No. And he didn't think so, either, although he diddled with painting outdoors. (The Palm Beach Post)
Bruce Museum looks at contentious relationship between Chase, Henri Jan 21, 2007
The pair admired the works of 17th-century giants Diego Velazquez and Frans Hals and 19th-century painters Edouard Manet and James McNeill Whistler, who also were inspired by the old masters. Chase and Henri each created paintings revealing the influence of Velazquez and Hals. (Stamford Advocate)
Images of political 'Dissent!' on view at Fogg Art Museum Jan 18, 2007
A lithograph by Edouard Manet shows soldiers firing on Paris Communards. Picasso's famous pair of etchings "Dream and Lie of Franco, " parts I and II, makes a surrealistic mockery of the Spanish dictator. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Read More... Jan 15, 2007
The first shows a single artist, Edouard Manet, striding into a future that bumps directly against the present. The other captures a group of German artists desperately reaching into the stylistic past to picture humanity in a state of utter depravity and pain. (Disinformation)
Monet's Love Affair with Japanese Art Jan 9, 2007
Japonisme, a fascination with all things Japanese, was soon the rage among French intellectuals and artists, among them Vincent van Gogh, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro and the young Monet. Perhaps for that reason Impressionism caught on early in Japan and remains ferociously popular there. (Time.com)
Impressions of a group of painters Dec 11, 2006
Manet soon painted her again, this time "holding close to her face a black Spanish fan, spread wide, the spokes suggestively covering everything but her mouth. ... The portrait is teasing and seductive, fraught with subliminal desire." He subsequently painted her wearing a corsage of violets -- usually signifying a love token -- which "nestles at the clasp of her jacket, adding to the impression that her clothes have been hastily reassembled." After this sitting, Manet painted a still life of... (San Francisco Chronicle)
One Family's Passion For Art Dec 11, 2006
Among the artists featured in this stunning sequel are some of the leading American painters from 1880 to 1950, among them John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Thomas Hart Benton, Maxfield Parrish, Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper, as well as a group of European Impressionists whose works all but define the movement - Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Berthe Morisot and Edgar Hillaire-Germain Degas. "Five years ago," writes New Britain museum director Douglas Hyland... (CTNow.com)
Impressionist insight: letters to Monet go on sale Dec 9, 2006
Many are by Monet's fellow Impressionist painters - including Renoir, Edouard Manet, Paul C;zanne, Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley and Mary Cassatt - offering an intimate glimpse into a close circle of artists. Monet carefully preserved the letters until his death in 1926 at the age of 86, and they became a family treasure, passed down through the generations. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Monet letters to be auctioned Dec 9, 2006
"The letters from Durand-Ruel, for example, show his constant support for the artist despite his financial difficulties. In one 1885 letter, Durand-Ruel wrote with humor of his plans to go to New York to help build enthusiasm for Monet's work in the United States."We have to revolutionize this country of millionaires, and try to become millionaires ourselves," he wrote. "We're not at that point yet, but everyone needs to start somewhere. "Many of the letters from Monet's fellow painters show... (The Morning Star)
- Jonathan Jones on his definitive list of 50 must-see masterpieces Dec 5, 2006
30 Edouard Manet, The Dead Torero (1864), National Gallery of Art, Washington. 31 Paul C;zanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire from Les Lauves (1904-6), Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. (Guardian Unlimited)
Setting Off Alarms With the Stroke of a Brush Nov 29, 2006
The most notorious Edouard Manet scandalized the art world a decade earlier with his Le d;jeuner sur l herbe (Luncheon on the Grass, 1863), which sandwiches a naked Parisian woman with two fully clothed men. Le d;jeuner sur l herbe isn t part of Massachusetts Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute or its traveling exhibition. (San Antonio Current, TX)
`American Splendor' celebrates the natural look Oct 22, 2006
In France, Edouard Manet and the Impressionists were leading an artistic revolution that celebrated busy city streets and bustling cafes, steaming trains and landscapes embroidered with bridges. It was the art of the future. (Boston Globe)
Portland museum exhibit traces the beginning of Modernism Sep 17, 2006
" Edouard Manet and the Impressionists took his words to heart, and focusing on idiosyncratic impressions of their environs and the pursuits of the financially ascendant middle class (who succeeded aristocrats, kings, and bishops as art's chief patrons), ushered in the beginning of Modernism.The Portland show is a who's-who of the era: Manet, Monet, Cezanne, Matisse, Seurat, Cassatt, Degas, Van Gogh, Pissarro, Renoir. It is a sign of the triumph of the Modernist revolution that these once... (Boston Globe)
[A LETTER TO THE EDITOR]The art of deception Aug 23, 2006
Shin reminds us that we often forget that Edouard Manet believed women's artistic activities should be a hobby rather than a job. We needn't be reminded. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Rousseau gets wild Aug 17, 2006
He was an outsider to the French Academy, but rather than lead avant-garde movements, like Edouard Manet, Rousseau seems to have tried to fit into the traditional mode in his own very odd way. It is noted that Rousseau was scared of his own jungle paintings--despite the fact that he used as models dioramas in natural history museum exhibits, displays at the world's fair, and the zoo and botanical gardens of Paris. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
The dazzling kiss of destructive... Aug 13, 2006
After all, when people name expressionist leader Edouard Manet as their favorite artist, they don't seem to remember the stubborn artist's belief that "a woman's artistic activities should be seen only as a hobby, not a job.". Largely influenced by the "destructive feminine" concept of their times, the late masters Felicien Rops (1833-1898) and Edvard Munch (1863-1944) had delved into the subject of feminine sexuality in their art. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Guggenheim in mega Bonn show Aug 3, 2006
Artists range from ranges from Edouard Manet and Marc Chagall to Paul Auguste Renoir, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. "We wanted to show the enormous extent of the Guggenheim collection," Susanne Kleine, the Bonn-based curator, said. (Aljazeera.Net)
Leaders & Success Jul 15, 2006
Debussy loved to study the works of and spend time with top literary and visual artists, including the Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarme, as well as Impressionist painters Edouard Manet, Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. He enjoyed Japanese woodblock prints too. (Investors Business Daily)
Redz Custom Airbrush Sets Bar as Bikers' Favorite for Ridin' in Style Jul 10, 2006
In Polk County, she's the Edouard Manet of motorcycles, the Hans Holbein of Harley-Davidsons, the Paul Klee of Kawasakis and the Paul Cezanne of Suzukis. But, as owner of Redz Custom Airbrush in Winter Haven, she's hardly a starving artist. (The Ledger)
Schiele, Picasso Star in Christie's $160 Million London Sale Jun 23, 2006
Impressionist pictures by Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet were among Christie's best performers. Dealers said newly rich buyers in Russia and Asia are customers for many second-tier pictures. (Bloomberg)
Rouault's spiritual works come to Korea May 7, 2006
Encouraged to develop his artistic skills from childhood, Rouault encountered works of Honore Daumier and Edouard Manet at an early age, and built up dreams of becoming an artist himself. Entering Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the official art school of France, in 1890, Rouault met his mentor Gustave Moreau, one of the leading Symbolists, who greatly influenced the artist's earliest works. (Korea Herald, Korea)
The true colors of conflict Apr 17, 2006
Seventeen years younger than Meissonier, Edouard Manet, handsome, clever and charming, is keenly attuned to and inspired by the dynamics of change as train tracks and telegraph lines crisscross the countryside, and photography challenges painting's raison d'etre. He is intent on inventing "a new style better suited to capturing the energy and spirit of the modern age.". (Orlando Sentinel)
Created bizarre, beautiful images (Joanna Shaw-Eagle) Mar 11, 2006
Other biggies follow, including the iconic "Great Wave" (from "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: Beneath the Wave Off the Coast of Kanagawa") that influenced art from French impressionists Claude Monet and Edouard Manet to Western modernism -- and even decorations on today's blue jeans. There's also the breathtakingly perpendicular "Kirifuri Waterfall at Mount Kurokami in Shimotsuke Province" (from a series of works titled "Traveling Around the Waterfalls in the Provinces") that surrealistically... (Washington Times)
Supporters of religious paintings celebrate 'victory' Feb 26, 2006
Edouard Manet, Claude Monet and James McNeil Whistler, to name a few. Compiled by News Researcher Karen Duffy. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Sursock's Autumn Salon takes a step back Jan 27, 2006
The Sursock Salon is roughly, superficially modeled on its French namesake, itself something of an organizational compromise that was initiated at the turn of the last century to mitigate the distance between the official salon (a relic of the 17th century) and its rebellious detractors, the Salon des Refuses and Salon des Independents, both of which were staged in the late 19th century (when Edouard Manet, for example, was considered too radical and scandalous to be accepted into the official... (The Daily Star, Lebanon)
On the trail of Cézanne: Modern art in the south of France Jan 14, 2006
C;zanne is generally lumped together with the other great painters of the Impressionist generation - Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir - but he was not truly an Impressionist, except for a brief period in his thirties. (There is also, from next month at the Mus;e d'Orsay in Paris, an exhibition tracing C;zanne's relationship with the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro in the 1870s. (The Independent, UK)
