Gardens of the Sunlight. Edouard Manet

Edouard Manet is regarded as the inventor of modern art and the godfather of Impressionism. He is also the last figure of the great classical art. He wasn't the Impressionist but young painters adopted his dynamic style of painting, sharp natural lighting and bold colouring.

Manet was a shocking artist; his career is studded with scandals that he did not seek to create. He rejected traditional, academic style of painting and conventional themes. His famous work - Le dejeuner sur l'herbe evoked a scandal. The subject of the picture threw many of those who saw it. The painter was alluding to the masterpiece of Renaissance - Giorgione's Country Concert. Manet's painting brought younger artists flocking to him. In their admiring eyes he was a confident force to the new. Following the scandal of the Le dejeuner sur l'herbe, Manet prompted an even more violent controversy with Olympia, quoting Titian's famed Venus of Urbino.

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	*The Absinthe Drinker*, 1858-59r., 81x106cm. Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
	*The Spanish Singer*, 1862r. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
	*Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe* ,1863, 214x270cm. Paris, Louvre. Click here to buy this print
	*Olympia,* 1863r., 130x190cm. Paris, Musee d'Orsay.
	*The Fifer,* 1866, 160x98cm. Paris, Louvre. Click here to buy this print
	*Still Life with Melon and Peaches*, 1866, 69x92cm. Washington, National Gallery of Art.
	*The Execution of the Emperor Maximilian,* 1867, 252x305cm. Mannheim, Kunsthalle.
	*Portrait of Emile Zola*, 1868, 146,5x114cm. Paris, Musee d'Orsay.
	*The Luncheon in the Studio*, 1868, 118x153cm. Munich, Neue Pinakothek.
	*The Balcony,* 1868r., 169x123cm. Paris, Louvre.
	*Berthe Morisot*, 1873, 26x34cm. Private collection.
	*Boating*, 1874, 97x130cm. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
	*Argenteuil,* 1874, 150x115cm. Tournai, Musee des Beaux-Arts.
	*Claude Monet Working on his Boat in Argenteuil,* 1874, 50x64cm. Munich, Neue Pinakothek.
	*Portrait of Stephane Mallarme*, 1874, 27,5x36cm. Paris, Musee d'Orsay.
	*Nana,* 1877, 150x116cm. Hamburg, Kunsthalle.
	*Young Girl on the Threshold of the Garden at Bellevue,* 1880. Private collection.
	*The Vienese: Portrait of Irma Bruner in a Black Hat*, 1880, 54x46cm. Paris, Louvre.
	*The Bar at the Folies Bergere,* 1882, 97x130cm. London, The Courtauld Institute Galleries. Click here to buy this print
	*The House at Rueil*, 1882, 92x73cm. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria. Click here to buy this print

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