Much of the art of Manet reflects the developments going on in Paris in the 1860s and 1870s. The rebuilding of Paris was being supervised by Baron Haussman, as much of the old medieval centre of the city was being destroyed so that the new city could be rebuilt. In his book “The painting of modern life” TJ Clark argues that modern art of the 20th century evolves from the art produced by Manet during this period of great change in Paris. Manet’s scenes of Parisian cafes, bars and streets reflected the new Paris. Manet’s work influenced the impressionist painters, who were a strong influences on the painting of the 20th century, so in this sense Manet’s painting is the first modern art that emerged from the creation of the new Paris which Manet depicted in many of his paintings. While Le Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe and Olympia were the most famous and most controversial works Manet produced, I do not feel they represent the view of the French writer Baudelaire who came up with the phrase ‘modern life’. Instead I will be focusing more on Manet’s last great masterpiece The Bar at the Folies-Bergere, a much better display of Paris life, as well as some of his other lesser known, smaller works. I will be discussing the relation of Manet’s art, especially this painting of the Folies Bergere night club, to modern life in Paris at this time.
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During the 1860s under the reign of Napoleon III in France, the city of Paris became one of the most modern in the world due to the extensive redesigning by Baron Georges Eugene Haussmann. Paris was full of bars, operas, cafes, cabarets and a centre of dance and western culture. Many of the slums and poor inner city areas were redesigned with wide open streets and modern buildings. While this meant many of the lower class people were moved out of the city, many richer and middle class people moved to the inner city in their place. It was one of the largest efforts to rebuild the centre of a city since ancient times. While there was the glamour of the many entertainments in the city, there was also a darker side of poverty, crime and prostitution. “The city – with its pristine exterior, its soiled underside, its hollow entertainments – provided the makings of an enormous duality: a two-sided mirror…a spectacle and secret life.” (Bromber 1996: 62) One of the key parts to this design by Haussmann were the wide tree lined avenues, which replaced the smaller streets that had previously existed in the city. “Haussmann’s grand design for the reconstruction of Paris was being carried forward by the Third Republic, and the city was now laced with wide, tree-lined avenues.” (Schneider 1972: 134) In fact, the modern city of Paris is based on the city that was built by Haussmann and the modern perception of Paris as being the artistic and cultural centre that it is known for, is chiefly based on Haussman’s design and re-modelling of the city.
The art of Edouard Manet depicted modern life in the new Paris, as advocated by the writer Baudelaire. Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a writer in nineteenth century Paris, a contemporary of Manet, who knew Manet personally, and who wrote about the idea of modern life. Baudelaire encouraged the artists of the day to paint modern scenes, such as looking at the world around them for inspiration, rather than turning to scenes from the past, or idealised romanticism that was popular in the first half of the century. In 1863 Baudelarie published his views on modern art in a book called The Painter of Modern Life, which was “widely held to be the source from which Manet drew his ideas about art.” (Brombert 1996: 59) He wrote in this book that the painter should emphasise both the negative and positive aspects of the new city; the spectacular entertainments, and the seedy underbelly as well. The modern life displayed in Manet’s paintings, was copied and followed by several of the impressionists such as Renoir, who also painted modern scenes. Compared to the other impressionists, Manet’s art is much more modern, much more involved in the city and the people living in what was for him, contemporary Paris. Of course, images of contemporary life had been made before Manet came along, but with him “the persistence and intensity of modern imagery…is much more a dominant characteristic.” (Hanson 1977: 34)
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Manet’s scenes of modern life in Paris influenced the impressionist painters. Art of Paris in the time of the Impressionists such as Manet increasingly depicted modern life. The realism of such painters as Gustave Courbet depicted scenes of peasants in the fields, ordinary people working or standing around a funeral, as in the Burial at Ornans in 1849. This type of art was further developed by Manet, who went from outdoor scenes such as the infamous Le Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe to scenes of Paris life. The people, buildings and life of Paris became the subject for the modern painter, “This is the setting for the painter of modern life:…the streets of Paris in all their elegance and sordidness.” (Brombert 1996: 61) Painters from America and Europe and all over the world came to Paris in this time, which was seen as the city that was the centre of western culture and art. Manet strongly influenced the impressionist painters, such as Renoir, who painted modern scenes such as the Luncheon of the Boating Party, or the Moulin de la Galette. In turn, his work influenced post-impressionists such as Seurat, who did the enormous painting of contemporary people relaxing on afternoon on an island in the Seine River. The depiction of these scenes of modern people engaging in conversation or ordinary activities such as eating at a restaurant became to be seen as a type of modern living. “There are pictures by Manet and Seurat…in which the environs of Paris are recognized to be a specific form of life.” (Clark 1985: 147) Manet’s scenes of Paris influenced artists such as Monet and Degas, as he was the first painter to paint in this new style of showing people in ordinary activities. “Manet was the first to paint Impressionist scenes of daily life and…was imitated by Monet and Degas in their early works.” (Wilenski 1973: 229)
The Essay on George Seurat Georges Paris Painting
Georges Seurat Georges Seurat was born on December 2, 1859, in Paris, France. He loved to draw as a young child while his mother, Ernestine Faire, raise him and his siblings. They lived in Paris and his father, Antoine-Chrisostome, spent most of his time in a cottage in Le Rainy. In 1875, when Seurat was only sixteen he began taking a course with a sculptor, Justin Le quien. Several years later, ...
Paris scenes such as cafes were common in Manet’s art. In the decade following 1870 he painted many scenes of modern life in Paris. “In the 1870s, Manet again turned with delight to painting the scenes and subjects he liked best: Paris, and Parisians everywhere they appeared.” (Schneider 1972: 144) Manet often sat at the restaurant on the Avenue de Clichy called Pere Lathuille’s, which had a garden as well as the eating area. He was able to paint simultaneously a scene showing the people of Paris, along with an outdoor scene from this restaurant. (See Cachin 1995: 123) One of the paintings he produced here was At Pere Lathuille’s showing a man looking very interested in a woman sitting a table at the restaurant who does not seem as interested in him as he is in her. He looks like he is getting too close and possibly annoying her, while she sits rigidly and disinterested. These type of paintings at places of eating were “among the most lively and fascinating of this new, modern genre.” (Duchting 1995: 95) Manet’s version of the Parisian life and streets was more familiar and playful than the modern scenes painted by Degas. (Cachin 1995: 122)
Manet depicted many scenes of the streets of Paris in his works. He did several paintings showing the streets when french flags were unfurled along the sides, and the horses and carts, and people walking past could be seen. The Rue Mosnier decked with flags, a very blurry work, shows the red, white and blue flags all over the buildings on either side of the street. He did another painting of the same subject with the same title, showing a man with one leg walking by with crutches at the bottom left and flags all over. Again depicting the same street, but this time in a different context, is Rue Monsnier with Pavers, where he shows the men repairing the street while people and horses move past in the background.
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Manet made many paintings showing modern people at cafes, restaurants and bars. These paintings show people socialising with very real expressions, they are either tired, disinterested, contemplative, or actively talking, socialising and drinking; having fun. From people eating at his own studio in Luncheon in the Studio, to the restaurants of Paris such as At the Cafe he loved portraying these functions. A typical one is The Waitress, which is a view of a crowded concert room, as though the action had been frozen in time momentarily. The focus of the painting is the waitress herself, who pauses for a moment behind a seated customer smoking a pipe, while a ballet dancer, with arms extended as she is about to turn, is on stage in the background. A dancer also appears in the background of The Cafe-concert, which is a scene at a bar with people showing ordinary emotions. A woman at the front looks dejected, with her eyes downwards. The gentleman on the right with his hands on what looks like a cane, seems as though he is about to move, thinking about what to do next. Behind them a woman holds a glass of beer to her mouth, half way through drinking it. Manet has painted beer drinking people before, a woman in mid drink is one of the two women in The Beer Drinkers. In Le Bon Bock, a fat, cheerful, bearded man sits with a pipe in one hand and a glass of beer in the other, looking straight at the viewer. It is a dark painting other than the flesh tones, but even so it is obvious he is sitting at a corner of a bar due to part of the table which is seen. One of the more well known Manet paintings shows a woman who is not interested in her drink at all, The Plum Brandy, where she stares into space almost not noticing the drink in front of her. In this painting as in the others, it is a very ‘real’ expression, she looks tired, disinterested, possibly she has had a very hard day before she went out to socialise.
Manet depicted other social activities of the people of Paris. Manet loved painting any fun activity where crowds of people gather. An early painting where horses rush straight at the viewer while crowds of people watch on both sides is Racing at Longchamp, showing a popular social activity at the time. He depicted people skating in the aptly named Skating, showing a woman very fashionably dressed which shows off very well her highly decorated costume, while people skate around in the background. He shows a group of his friends including himself in Music in the Tuileries, where many men dressed with top hats and black jackets stand around socialising, while others sit and talk, such as two women in the foreground . He has included himself, which reflects the fact that this world which he depicted was very much his world, parties and events that he went to himself. “Like many a fellow Parisian, Manet enjoyed fancy dress and make-believe.” (Hanson 1977: 79) He is not so much depicting a scene because of its colours, form or beauty as he is depicting it because of its atmosphere, the feelings and expressions of Parisian people. He also depicted many types of these people in View of the International Exhibition, which shows soldiers relaxing seated and standing; several couples of well to do people talking; a gardener; a boy with a dog; a woman on horseback; a sample of all the classes and ages of the people of Paris.
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A more upper class event shown is Masked Ball at the Opera, where men with bow ties and black suits stand around chatting with fancifully dressed women with masks. Everyone is talking with each other, it is a real party and they are all having fun. Some people make expressive gestures with their hands, as people do when explaining something in conversation. He also painted a very real scene of a woman waiting for a train in The Railway, where a woman who is the middle of reading a book looks up at the viewer momentarily, while a young girl also does exactly what would be expected, standing looking at the train with all its noise and smoke. The older woman has perhaps done this many times before while the girl is excited by the train.
TJ Clark argues that modern art derives from the depiction impressionist painters, especially Manet, did of modern life during Paris in the nineteenth century. The four chapters of TJ Clark’s marxist-leaning book argues that firstly the modernization of Paris helped produce the modern art of painters such as Manet, secondly that Manet’s painting of Olympia is an aspect of modern life he depicted, which was commonplace at the time, although many people would not want to have admitted it. Thirdly he argued that some aspects of modernity were able to be seen, especially by the middle class, and finally he says that ‘popular’ is a widely used general term of the late nineteenth century. He said that Manet’s painting Olympia showed the class of the prostitute he depicted which caused the resulting uproar. While A Bar at the Folies-Bergere was a painting used to depict the modern life of Paris at the time.
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“Manet’s attitude towards the Folies-Bergere – towards modern life in Paris…it seems to me also that a degree of conflict exists between that attitude and the beliefs about painting and vision – the metaphysic of plainness and immediacy…that manet held both sets of beliefs is incontestable, and the tension between them was never more visible than in his last big painting. (TJ Clark 1985: 253)
A Bar at the Folies-Bergere was the last major work Manet did before he died, one great masterpiece which he put all his energy into in one last astounding effort. It shows exactly what he had been trying to do in his life of depict modern scenes at the bar or at the opera. For this scene, instead of showing a scene of people talking or being served at the bar, the viewer is involved in the painting directly as though the girl in the painting is serving them. The barmaid looks at the viewer as if to ask what they are about to order. By depicting such a modern scene, this is clearly a break from the past of fairytales, legends and even much more modern and involving the viewer than the realist art of Courbet or the art of some of the other impressionists. Every detail in the painting is modern, from the champagne bottles to the costumes of the girl and the people in the background. The bottles of beer have a label with a triangular motif, an extremely modern shape and design, hinting at the world of advertisements and modern capitalism. In addition, Manet has signed his name on the label for the bottle at the bottom left, as though it were a modern promotion, “as if to reinforce the attention to the painting as a self-advertising luxury commodity” (Armstrong 2002: 284).
A scene at a bar typifies modern culture, it is not a painting of workers in a field or of a tale from classical mythology, it is a definite break in the past. The girl seems real, with an expression that appears to be of someone who is it work, not idealised or exaggerated, but just a normal expression for a barmaid about to serve a customer. Her two hands push the top of her body forward, she is leaning towards the customer, another device that makes the viewer really feel as though they are ‘inside’ the painting. She is the very image of modern Paris and the model she is drawn from, Suzon, actually worked at the bar there who came to Manet’s studio; “a real serving girl from a bar at the Folies-Bergere [came] to pose in his studio…this quintessential image of the Parisian universe that had been Manet’s life, his world.” (Cachin 1995: 124)
The painting of the Bar shows exactly the idea of modern life in Paris. It combines the imagery of several of his previous works. It reflects the idea of the working woman in the new Paris built by Haussman. “Its final updating, in the aftermath of the Second Empire’s modernization of the city of Paris in the image of the flow of goods and currency, people and pleasures, of Baudelaire’s ‘painting of modern life’ in the image of modern woman.” (Armstrong 2002: 300) This painting showed everything about Paris that the city was famous for; the nightlife, the woman in the background appears to be holding glasses as though she is looking at the opera, a trapeze at the very top left hints at a circus, the large chandelier at the top shows the glamour of Paris, in the background of the mirror appears to be a huge ballroom crowded with people. While the background is vague, the overall impression is that of an enormous party, while the viewer of the painting leaves the action for a moment to order a drink at the bar. “Manet has captured the essential feelings of boredom and glitter…It is with such paintings that Manet records modern ‘history’ – the spirit of modern life.” (Hanson 1977: 68) By combining many elements from previous paintings; crowds of people, fancy costumes, nightlife, drinking and entertainment Manet has shown the spirit of modern life which came to influence the art of the 20th century. “Stasis and action in perpetual balance, Manet had admirably fulfilled Baudelaire’s admonition that the modern artist must extract from the ephemeral and transitory the poetic and eternal qualities of his own age.” (Hanson 1977: 205)
Paris in the late nineteenth century became one of the most modern in the world, due to the redesigning by Baron Haussman. By depicting the life of this city, Manet showed a world which is more familiar to people today than any art which had come before it. The art of Manet shows a window into the life of the people of Paris. His depiction of people of all classes and types, of different occupations, at different times of day shows broadly what life would have been like for people at this time, and shows the leisurely pursuits which many people in cities today enjoy. Manet painted many Parisian activities and places; cafes; restaurants; concerts; skating rinks; races; expositions; balls; picnics; a world of entertainment and fun. Manet broke away from traditional art and depicted the world around him like no-one had before, and in that sense he created some of the first truly modern art.
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