Salvador Manet Research Papers

Edouard Manet was a very famous artist during the mid-1800. He painted people and city life on a day to day basis; he was an impressionist painter. Edouard was born on January 23, 1832, into a bourgeoisie household in Paris, France. He was the son of a high ranking judge named Auguste Manet and his mother was Eugenie-Desiree Fournier the daughter of a diplomat. Edouard’s parents both worked with the law, and they wanted young Edouard to have a career also dealing with the law, he refused and instead he became a painter. In 1848 Edouard was just 16 years old when his father sent him to Brazil hoping that Edouard would become a Navy Seal. A year later Edouard came back home and told his parents that he had failed his naval examinations. A decade had past and Edouard never past the naval examinations, so his parents finally enrolled him to attend art school and Manet was very happy that his parents would finally attend an art school. …show more content…
At age 20, Manet had his first son named Leon. Leon was passed off to Suzanne’s family to avoid any scandals and was told that he was Suzanne’s younger brother and Manet was his godfather. In January of 1850, Monet joined the Thomas Couture’s Studio and Couture encouraged his students to explore the ways of art and art expressions. Monet trained with Couture for six years and then started his own studio in Rue Lavoisier. Manet worked with other artists who believed that art should represent modern life and not history or mythology. The salon of 1863 refused these paintings and thought that painters were better off painting history or mythology than modern life. Monet and his friends were furious when they heard about this so they decided to post their rejected artwork to the secondary Salon Des Refuses. During the Olympia in 1863, Manet painted another nude portrait of his favorite