Interesting
Facts About Edouard Manet
TEN
FACTS
- Influenced
and mentored artists -- Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne,
among others -- who were to create Impressionism.
- Adopted a
revolutionary technique of applying color directly to the canvas
-- creating a sense of immediacy and spontaneity.
- Rejected academic
traditions, which stringently enforced the history of painting
instead of innovation.
- Became a pivotal
figure in the modern movement of 19th century French art.
- Painted 420
oil paintings.
- Edouard was
the son of a high governmnt official.
- Served as
an officer in the French army from 1870 to 1871.
- Émile
Zola (See History Facts) became a close friend of Manet.
- Enthusiastic
for contemporary Japanese art.
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