Art Appreciation Lecture Series 2014 Realism to Surrealism: European art and culture Manet ( ) Painter of Modern Life

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1 Art Appreciation Lecture Series 2014 Realism to Surrealism: European art and culture Manet ( ) Painter of Modern Life Christopher Allen 26/27 March 2014 Lecture summary: Manet is not only one of the greatest artists of the nineteenth century, but one of the most sophisticated painters of the modern experience, ostensibly concerned with the representation of middle-class life in Paris during the Second Empire and the Third Republic, but in reality defining a sensibility that recalls Baudelaire and anticipates Proust. He employs a complex play of arthistorical allusions and echoes to renew our perception of the familiar world, and he concentrates in particular on the look in his subjects eyes whether seemingly directed at other figures in the composition, disconcertingly addressing us as viewers of the picture, or perhaps most often turned back inwards, alone and absent. Slide list (all works by Manet unless otherwise specified): * 1. Le Balcon, , oil on canvas, 170 x cm, Paris, Musée d Orsay 2. Fantin-Latour, Hommage à Delacroix, 1864, oil on canvas, 160 x 250 cm; Paris, Musee d Orsay 3. Music in the Tuileries Garden, 1862; oil on canvas, 76 x 119 cm, London, National Gallery 4. Richard Redgrave, The Outcast, 1851, oil on canvas, 79 x 100 cm, London, Royal Academy 5. Holman Hunt, The Awakening Conscience, 1853, oil on canvas, 76 x 56 cm, London, Tate 6. Goya, Majas on balcony, , oil on canvas, x cm, New York, Metropolitan Museum 7. The Surprised nymph, ; oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm; Buenos Aires, Museo de Bellas Artes 8. Lola de Valence, 1862, oil on canvas, 123 x 92 cm, Paris, Musée d Orsay 9. Goya, Portrait of the Duchess of Alba, 1797, oil on canvas, 210 x 149 cm, New York, Hispanic Society of America 10. Portrait of Victorine Meurent, 1862, oil on canvas, 43 x 44 cm, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 11. Mademoiselle V in the costume of an Espada, 1862, oil on canvas, 165 x 128 cm, New York, Metropolitan Museum * 12. Le Déjeuner sur l herbe, 1863, oil on canvas, 208 x cm; Paris, Musée d Orsay Proudly sponsored by

2 13. Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael, The Judgement of Paris, c Giorgione (and Titian?), Concert champêtre, , oil on canvas, 110 x 138 cm; Paris, Louvre * 15. Olympia, 1863, oil on canvas, x 190 cm; Paris, Musée d Orsay 16. Portrait of Théodore Duret, 1867, oil on canvas, 47 x 35 cm, Paris, Petit Palais 17. Velazquex, Philip IV, , oil on canvas, 210 x 102 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado 18. Portrait of Emile Zola, 1868, oil on canvas, 146 x 114, Paris, Musée d Orsay 19. Velazquez, Don Diego de Acedo (El Primo), c. 1645, oil on canvas, 106 x 83 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado * 20. Execution of the Emperor Maximilian, c. 1868, oil on canvas, 252 x 305 cm; Mannheim, Kunsthalle 21. Goya, Execution of the defenders of Madrid, 3 rd of May, 1808, 1814, oil on canvas, 266 x 345 cm; Madrid, Prado 22. Repose Portrait of Berthe Morisot, 1870, oil on canvas, 148 x 113 cm, Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design Museum 23. Berthe Morisot with a bunch of violets, 1872, oil on canvas, 55 x 38 cm, Paris, Musée d Orsay 24. The Railway, 1873; oil on canvas, 93 x 112 cm, Washington, National Gallery 25. Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé, 1876; oil on canvas, 28 x 36 cm, Paris, Musée d Orsay 26. Self-portrait with a palette, 1879, oil on canvas, 61, 50 cm, Private collection 27. Nana, 1877, oil on canvs, 154 x 115 cm, Hamburg, Kunsthalle 28. The Plum Brandy, c. 1877, oil on canvas, 74 x 50 cm, Washington, National Gallery 29. Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé, 1876; oil on canvas, 28 x 36 cm, Paris, Musée d Orsay 30. Chez Père Lathuille, 1879; oil on canvas, 93 x 112 cm, Tournai, Musée des Beaux-Arts 31. In the winter garden, 1879; oil on canvas, 115 x 150 cm, Berlin, Staatliche Museen * 32. A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, ; oil on canvas, 96 x 130 cm London, Courtault Institute References: Alan Krell, Manet. London, Thames and Hudson (World of Art), Maryanne Stevens, et al., Manet: Portraying life. London, Royal Academy, Gary Tinterow, Manet/Velzquez: the French taste for Spanish painting. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003

3 Images: The Plum Brandy, c Oil on canvas, 74 x 50 cm Washington, National Gallery Le Balcon, Oil on canvas, 170 x cm Paris, Musée d Orsay Le Déjeuner sur l herbe, 1863 Oil on canvas, 208 x cm; Paris, Musée d Orsay

4 Olympia, 1863 Oil on canvas, x 190 cm; Paris, Musée d Orsay Execution of the Emperor Maximilian, c Oil on canvas, 252 x 305 cm; Mannheim, Kunsthalle

5 A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, ; oil on canvas, 96 x 130 cm London, Courtault Institute