Who Is Edouard Manet: The Most Controversial Artist

Edouard Manet was considered to be the most controversial artist in Paris in the 1860’s because he was the most important predecessor of Impressionim in French art. Although he studied with an academic master, he walked away from the tradition teachings to an update in the art of the Old Masters (Veronese, Válzquez, and Rembrandt) by refusing paintings with a dose of realm inherited from Gustave Courbet. The revolutionary of Manet works is that he would often flattened out the figures in his paintings under the influence of the Japenese prints that he knew and admired. With Manet being championed by other artists as a leader of the avant-garde, he was like that by just being loose, open brushwork and sometimes in commonplace subjects. Some other revolutionary works that involved impressionism through artists were Claude …show more content…
The painting main focus was on the fascination of the play of light amid the steam of the locomotives and the clouds glimpsed through the glass roof. In the revolutionary works of August Rodin, he was innovative in sculptures. The best-known work by August Rodin is called “The Thinker.” He projected this sculpture as the universal artist poet as creator, judge, and witness, brooding over the human condition. By this, Rodin combined knowledge of anatomy with modeling skills to create the fluid, tactile quality with modeling skills to create the fluid, tactile quality of hand-shaped clay. With this work of art, he restored sculpture as a vehicle for personal expression after it had lapsed into mere decoration and heroic monuments. Next, Paul Cézanne's revolutionary was to "make Impression into something solid and enduring like the art of the museum." He was intrested in developing formal structure in paintings by achieving structure clarity of design and to make paintings be influenced in the twentieth-century formalist