Showing posts with label Edouard Manet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edouard Manet. Show all posts

Monday, February 28, 2011

The Passionate Art of Edouard Manet

Edouard Manet is one of my favorite men of the art sphere. The passion of this man's painting is so strong. And the brash modernist realism is exciting and briskly remarkable. The painting entitled 'The Absinthe Drinker' (1858) engulfs one in a grand stretch of thoughtfulness with its portrayal of a sleek and wily soul there in the vigorous Paris back streets. 'Spanish Guitar Player' (1862) encapsulates a sort of homage to the Salon cadre and it works with its delicate soothing sophistication. Edouard Manet was a tasteful member of High Society and his art charms people in a unique way much akin to the scintillating paintings of Claude Monet. Of course, Claude Monet much like Edouard Manet, has the ability to engage one's inner soul in such a truly invigorating way. The clever Manet got intensely into the ranks of the impressionists a bit later. A tremendous masterpiece of Manet's is 'Bar at the Folies-Bergere' (1882). This work has a little bit of it all...the barmaid, trapeze artists, couples....it is a sensual joy that is remindful of the reading of the very acerbic and marvelous literary radical, Gertrude Stein. Manet seems to prove over and over that unique art should indeed be very sincere. This imaginative soul is a joy with his art that provokes one in such a good way, intellectually.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Claude Monet: His Paintings Enchant Us

Claude Monet is such a marvelous exponent of the precise soft-toned shimmering art that is characteristic of French impressionism. Indeed, Claude Monet went out and literally communed with nature in a most emotional and delightful way and his art shows incredible sensitive feelings that truly overwhelm us. It is his kind of art that can magically please us tremendously. Monet liked the work of the American painter, Whistler and he reportedly liked the at the time unusual concepts of another fine painter and one of his contemporaries, Edouard Manet. In numerous ways the engaging art of Edouard Manet is also very thought provoking. The vibrant forms of true nature come liltingly to life in the intense paintings of Claude Monet. It is a given as they say in geometry that Claude Monet had a sleek and refined sense of the strong metaphysical in his art and it certainly pulls us all in and provides maximum enjoyment for all the art fans of the world.

Nice Writing

THE GOOD terse writing of Ernest Hemingway is a real joy.  He does not use too many adjectives.  His 'Torrents' is a fine tome.