Alfred Manet Research Paper

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Édouard Manet was a famous french artist who painted a lot of portraits of people in different places whether it was in cafe scenes, paris, or historical times. Manet didn’t have a specific person as a main focus it was just people in general. He was classified as a realist or impressionist meanwhile realism and impressionism were both picking up around Manet was born. By the time his work began getting recognized there were a lot more fans of the two art movements. Manet created his own studio in 1856 where he used a style of painting where he used loose brush strokes and he embraced what is now known as realism. The grand canal of Venice was put into a collection in the Shelburne Museum in Vermont. One of his more famous

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