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From the blog of Morgue Gallery:
‘Manet: Portraying
Life’ has been organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in
collaboration with the Toledo Museum of Art and is the first ever
retrospective devoted to the portraiture of Edouard Manet. The
exhibition consists of more than 50 of his works, a vast number of which
were ‘never exhibited in his lifetime’ (and maybe should never have
been exhibited).
If you were not already familiar with
Manet’s painting I think you would get the wrong impression from this
exhibition – the quality of the majority of the paintings is ‘second
rate’ at best and most definitely not typical of his work. This
exhibition has done him a massive injustice, threatening his status as
an important innovator. He is one of the greatest artists ever but this
exhibition portrays him as a mediocre one – a massive shame.
The painting of Berthe Morisot
is one of the ‘stars’ of the show and does the man credit. Morisot
herself is credited with convincing Manet to attempt plein
air painting, she also became his sister-in-law when she married his
brother, Eugene…
Manet’s Olympia (which is in the Musée d’Orsay) is an important painting. In 1974 at Stourbridge College of Art I did a series of paintings based on ‘Page 3 models’ and I was intrigued how Manet’s Olympia … Continue reading →
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