He's one of those painters considered so influential, people don't even bother with his first name. Looking at his work now, it's hard to imagine that Edouard Manet was ever regarded as revolutionary, ...

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Eight little things (a scene, a joke, a building, a pizza, a dance, a painting, a lyric, a sound) worth your time. By Jason Farago This shoe appears in Édouard Manet’s “Mademoiselle V … in the Costume ...

Sky and sea, smoke and steam were a combination of elements irresistible to Impressionist painters. And one June day 139 years ago, those elements merged off the coast of France in one of the most ...

Some art types will go to their graves shouting Goya. Others never shift from the Gustave Courbet camp. I have even heard the occasional scholarly defence of Eugene Delacroix. It's a silly game, but ...

Manet and Modern Beauty is the catalogue of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Getty Museum that closed earlier this year. As the opening essay explains, the catalogue concentrates ...

Édouard Manet has become a popular painter, yet he remains a difficult and unpredictable one. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

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Eva Gonzalès was not only lucky enough to be born in Paris in the 1840s, at a time when the city’s art world was experiencing a profound artistic revolution, but to be born to parents who allowed her ...

Manet and Modern Beauty is the catalogue of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Getty Museum that closed earlier this year. As the opening essay explains, the catalogue concentrates ...