Edouard manet biography summary worksheet

Édouard Manet is considered an important figure in the transition from Realistic to Impressionistic art. He was also one of the first nineteenth-century artists to approach painting modern-life subjects. Manet's subjects of painting were often controversial, but are now revered for the way in which he portrayed real life, using impressionistic methods of painting. Using the alla prima style, he painted with oils in a direct and expressive style, capturing the moment.

It is suggested that the inspiration for the painting Nana, came from the French novelist Emile Zola's book L'Assommoir, the seventh novel of a twenty-one volume series called Les Rougon-Macquart. Zola's novels explored poverty and alcoholism in the working-class of Paris, during the nineteenth century. The model for the precociously immoral Nana, was a Parisian mistress named Henriette Hauser. Nana was a common term used in the nineteenth century, for a lady of the evening.

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