Comparison Of Edouard Manet And Alexandre Cabanel

Edouard Manet and Alexandre Cabanel may have both been taught by academic teachers but when it comes to their paintings and techniques they are in two completely different areas of art. Alexandre Cabanel’s The Fallen Angel is a painting about a biblical story that many people knew compared to Edouard Manet’s The Ragpicker which is a painting of a regular day person that people could walk by on the street without much thought to them. In Edouard Manet’s oil painting The Ragpicker Manet used a darker color palette with a lot of browns and greys varied throughout the painting. While Alexandre Cabanel’s painting The Fallen Angel used a more balanced color palette with the use of both darker and lighter colors. In Alexandre Cabanel’s painting The Fallen Angel the angel’s skin looks very smooth almost as if it is airbrushed. Though in Edouard Manet’s painting he painted the ragpicker’s hands and face loosely to give it the rough and textured look. Both artist’s painting strokes are opposites in that Edouard Manet uses more paint on his …show more content…
The use of lighting in both artworks are similar in that Edouard Manet painted The Ragpicker with light shining on him from the top left corner as well as Alexandre Cabanel in his painting. Alexandre Cabanel and Edouard Manet painted both faces showing some real emotion that the viewer has to be in close proximity to see. In both The Fallen Angel and The Ragpicker paintings they are looking off into the distance at something or someone with similar facial expressions. Alexandre Cabanel used quite a bit of blue, grey and white throughout his painting and similarly Edouard Manet also used a great deal of of blue, grey and white throughout his painting. The Ragpicker by Edouard Manet and The Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel were both painted with the use of oil paints and they were also both painted in life