Manet's Women
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Nineteenth century France was a period of rapid modernisation and expansion. Édouard Manet, the quintessential painter of modern life, was a man of his times and his paintings were powerful, often shocking, representations of modern society. In particular, Manet scandalised French society with his iconoclastic depictions of women as objects of pleasure and commerce, as products of a burgeoning capitalism and a commodity of the bourgeois male. An understanding of the historical and social context is essential in appreciating the significance of Manet's paintings such as Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, Olympia and Bar aux Folies-Bergere. Fully illustrated with images in context by Manet and his influences including the popular illustrators of his time.
Includes excerpts from Baudelaire's highly influential 'The Painter of Modern Life' (1863).
Spatio Temprey
My professional background is in art education. I have worked in secondary schools as well as a distance learning institution where I wrote and designed instructional materials. Educational qualifications: Dip Fine Art, Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Arts (art history; philosophy), Master of Education (philosophy of education)
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Manet's Women - Spatio Temprey
Manet’s Women
Spatio Temprey
Copyright 2014 by Spatio Temprey
Published by Ozbox Design at Smashwords
A monograph
What did this painter of modern life say about the women of his times?
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About the author
Spatio Temprey (Dip. Fine Art, BEd, BA, MEd) is an art educator with many years experience teaching upper secondary school, and in instructional design.
The author has a degree in art history and philosophy and a masters degree in education from the University of Western Australia.
Copyright and the reproductions used in this ebook
The artworks reproduced in this publication are in the public domain under the Australian Copyright Act 1968, which includes the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement Amendments, because the creator died before 1 January 1955. While reasonable effort has been made to identify and acknowledge all legally required sources in this ebook, we invite any queries about omissions or errors.
Cover design with detail of Édouard Manet’s The café-concert circa 1879
Contents
Manet's women
Haussmannisation
Emergence of the petite bourgeoisie
The dandy
The grisette, lorette and other types
Olympia
The flâneur and ideology
Bar aux Folies-Bergère
Final comment
References
Citations
Appendix
Excerpt: The painter of modern life (1863) by Charles Baudelaire
Following graphic: detail of Édouard Manet’s Bar at the Folies-Bergère 1882
Manet’s representations of women are always sexually and socially ambiguous. This is evident in the nudes of the sixties and especially his last major work, Bar at the Folies-Bergère.
The reference to sexual ambiguity pertains to the manner in which the viewer relates sexually to Manet’s images of women. This matter will be treated later in a discussion of Manet’s 1865 salon entry, Olympia.
The other issue of social ambiguity is more straightforward even if the answer is not; it lies in the complex social structure of Second Empire Paris, a period of massive upheaval, flux and change.