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Guitar and Hat: Edouard Manet

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Edouard Manet
Date: 1862; Paris, France *
Style: Realism
Genre: still life
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Musée Calvet, Avignon, France

Manet, a painter of still life, meditated on the lessons of his predecessors, those of the Spanish and their bodegones (Guitar and Hat, Avignon, Musée Calvet), those of the Dutch (The Salmon, Shelburne, Vermon, Shelburne Museum), and of Chardin (Fish, Chicago, Art Institute). In the 1860's he toyed with frank oppositions of black and the white, the dark wood of a table against the brightness of a napkin or tablecloth on which he placed his touches of colour.

This was the part of his work that received the warmest welcome. "The most vociferous enemies of Edouard Manet's talent grant him that he is good at painting inanimate objects" noted Emile Zola in 1867. Indeed, his detractors never said anything else : if Manet had any talent at all, it was limited to his transcriptions of these "inanimate objects," otherwise he degraded everything he touched. The painter who, from scandal to scandal, had acquired, as Degas put it, a reputation à la Garibaldi, was no more than a technician skilled in rendering bouquets, laid tables and all sorts of "things".

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