31/07/2024
Start your day with something beautiful. 🌸
Born in Paris in 1832 (189 years ago, yesterday✨), Édouard Manet showed promise in drawing and caricature from an early age. While copying paintings at the Musée du Louvre, Manet became attracted to the bold brushwork of Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. He soon adopted a free style of painting that opposed the polished surfaces revered by academic artists. Rather than gradually building up a composition with layers of blended pigments and translucent glazes, Manet selected and applied patches of color side by side, from the start, for their final effect.
Manet’s bold style, contemporary subject matter, and determination to challenge entrenched academic models influenced younger artists who would come to be known as the impressionists.
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🖼️ Édouard Manet, “Flowers in a Crystal Vase,” 1882, oil on canvas, 12 7/8 x 9 5/8 in., Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
