Download or read book Edouard Manet written by Emile Zola and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edouard Manet (Paris, 1832 – 1883) Manet est l'un des plus célèbres artistes de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, lié aux impressionnistes sans faire vraiment partie de leur groupe. Chérissant son indépendance, il eut une grande influence sur la peinture française, en partie due au choix de ses sujets tirés de la vie quotidienne, de son usage de couleurs pures et de sa technique rapide et libre. C'est son œuvre qui assura la transition entre le réalisme de Courbet et la vision novatrice des impressionnistes. Issu de la grande bourgeoisie, il choisit de devenir peintre après avoir raté son entrée à l'Ecole navale. Il se forma auprès de Thomas Couture, un peintre académique, mais c'est grâce à ses nombreux voyages à travers l'Europe qu'il entreprit dès 1852, qu'il commença à se faire une idée de ce qu'allait être son style propre. Ses premières peintures étaient essentiellement des scènes de genre, inspirées par son amour pour les maîtres espagnols comme Velazquez et Goya, et le portrait. C'est en 1863 qu'il présenta son chef-d'œuvre Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe au Salon des refusés. Son œuvre déclenchant une polémique entre les défenseurs de l'art académique et les jeunes artistes «refusés », il devint le chef de file de cette nouvelle génération d'artistes. A partir de 1864, le salon officiel accepta ses travaux, provoquant toujours de véhémentes protestations comme ce fut le cas avec Olympia en 1865. En 1866, l'écrivain Zola écrivit un article en faveur du travail de Manet. A cette époque, le peintre était ami avec tous les futurs grands maîtres impressionnistes : Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro et Paul Cézanne, qui s'influençaient les uns les autres ; pourtant il restait délibérément à l'extérieur du groupe. En effet, en 1874 il refusa de présenter ses peintures lors de leur première exposition. Sa dernière apparition dans un salon officiel fut en 1882 avec Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère, l'une de ses œuvres les plus connues. Atteint par la gangrène au cours de l'année 1883, il peignit des natures mortes de fleurs jusqu'au moment où il ne s'en sentit plus capable, et il mourut en laissant derrière lui un grand nombre de dessins et de peintures.

Download or read book Pierre Auguste Renoir et uvres d art written by Nathalia Brodskaya and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierre–Auguste Renoir (Limoges, 1841 – Cagnes-Sur-Mer, 1919) Pierre-Auguste Renoir naquit le 25 février 1841 à Limoges. En 1854, ses parents retirèrent l'enfant de l'école et le placèrent dans l'atelier des frères Lévy afin qu'il apprenne la peinture sur porcelaine. Son frère cadet, Edmond Renoir,racontait : «De ce qu'il usait des bouts de charbon sur les murs, on en conclut qu'il aurait du goût pour une profession artistique. Nos parents le placèrent donc chez un peintre en porcelaine. » Un des ouvriers de Lévy, Emile Laporte, pratiquait la peinture à l'huile pour son plaisir. Il proposa à Renoir d'utiliser ses toiles et ses couleurs. Et c'est récisément ainsi que naquit le premier tableau du futur impressionniste, qui fut montré très solennellement à Laporte dans la maison des Renoir. En 1862, Auguste Renoir réussit son examen d'entrée à l'École des Beaux-Arts. Il fréquente en même temps un atelier libre où enseigne le professeur Charles Gleyre. Le deuxième événement important de cette période de la vie de Renoir fut la rencontre, dans l'atelier Gleyre, de ceux qui devinrent ses meilleurs amis tout au long de sa vie et ses compagnons dans l'art. À un âge plus avancé, l'artiste déjà mûr eut la possibilité de voir des Rembrandt en Hollande, des Velàzquez, Goya et le Greco en Espagne, et des Raphaël en Italie. À l'époque où les amis se retrouvaient à la Closerie des Lilas, Renoir continuait de puiser son inspiration au Louvre : «Et pour moi, au moment de Gleyre, le Louvre c'était Delacroix. » La première exposition des impressionnistes devint, pour Renoir, le moment d'assertion de sa propre vision du peintre. Dans la vie de l'artiste, cette période fut marquée encore par un événement significatif : en 1873, il emménagea à Montmartre au numéro 35 de la rue Saint-Georges, où il vécut jusqu'en 1884. Il resta fidèle à Montmartre jusqu'à la fin de sa vie. Là, il trouva ses motifs de plein air, ses modèles et même sa famille. C'est justement dans les années 1870 que Renoir se fit des amis qui l'accompagnèrent jusqu'à la fin de ses jours. Le marchand Durand-Ruel devint l'un d'eux. Il commença à lui acheter des tableaux en 1872. L'été, comme toujours, Renoir peignait beaucoup, avec Monet, en plein air. Il venait à Argenteuil où Monet louait une maison pour sa famille. Avec eux travaillait parfois Edouard Manet. En 1877, à la troisième exposition des impressionnistes, Renoir présenta plus de vingt peintures. C'étaient des paysages exécutés à Paris, sur la Seine, en dehors de la ville et dans le jardin de Claude Monet ; des études de visages de femmes et des bouquets de fleurs ; les portraits de Sisley, de l'actrice Jeanne Samary, de l'écrivain Alphonse Daudet et de l'homme politique Spuller ; il y avait aussi La Balançoire et le Bal au Moulin de la Galette. Dans les années 1880, Renoir connut enfin le véritable succès. Il travaillait sur des commandes de riches financiers, de la propriétaire des Grands Magasins du Louvre, du sénateur Goujon. Ses peintures furent exposées à Londres, à Bruxelles, à la septième exposition internationale chez Georges Petit (1886). Dans sa lettre adressée à Durand-Ruel, à New York, il écrit : «L'exposition de Petit est ouverte et elle a pas mal de succès, diton. Car c'est difficile de savoir soi-même ce qui se passe. Je crois avoir fait un pas dans l'estime publique, petit pas. Mais c'est toujours ça ».

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Download or read book The Temple of Gnidus written by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) T177494 Anonymous. By Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. Parallel French and English titlepages and text, the French title being 'Le temple de Gnide'. With a final advertisement leaf. Dublin: printed by S. Powell, 1750. 155, [3]p.; 12°

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Download or read book Epic and Empire written by David Quint and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature. He divides the history of the genre into two political traditions: the Virgilian epics of conquest and empire that take the victors' side (the Aeneid itself, Camoes's Lusíadas, Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata) and the countervailing epic of the defeated and of republican liberty (Lucan's Pharsalia, Ercilla's Araucana, and d'Aubigné's Les tragiques). These traditions produce opposing ideas of historical narrative: a linear, teleological narrative that belongs to the imperial conquerors, and an episodic and open-ended narrative identified with "romance," the story told of and by the defeated. Quint situates Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained within these rival traditions. He extends his political analysis to the scholarly revival of medieval epic in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and to Sergei Eisenstein's epic film, Alexander Nevsky. Attending both to the topical contexts of individual poems and to the larger historical development of the epic genre, Epic and Empire provides new models for exploring the relationship between ideology and literary form.

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Download or read book The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites written by Richard Stillwell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are over 1,000 pages of authoritative information on the archaeology of Greek and Roman civilization. The sites discussed in the more than 2,800 entries are scattered from Britain to India and from the shores of the Black Sea to the coast of North Africa and up the Nile. They are located on sixteen area maps, keyed to the entries. The entries were written by 375 scholars from sixteen nations, many of whom have worked at the sites they describe. Until now our knowledge of the Classical period has been scattered in hundreds of sources dating from antiquity to our own times. This volume provides essential information on work accomplished, in progress, and still to be undertaken. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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