Manet, the Man who Invented Modern Art, Musée d’Orsay – Exhibition recommended by the Hotel Britannique, Paris

Hotel Britannique — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:16:44 +0000

The Musée d’Orsay invites us to discover, from April 5th to July 3rd 2011, a rare exhibition on one of the major French painters of the nineteenth century: Edouard Manet (1832-1883).

Manet was very sensitive to the metamorphoses and the diversity of his city. As an attentive observer, he realized his paintings objectively, by interpreting scenes from the society in which he lived.

The exhibition « Manet, the Man who Invented Modern Art » tries to enlighten the public about the historical situation of Edouard Manet, between the reaffirmed legacy of Romanticism, the impact of his contemporaries and the media flow of his time. Resolutely modern in his approach of painting, Manet challenged the old masters.

Around 200 paintings, drawings and photographs, this exhibition informs us about the teaching of Thomas Couture, Baudelaire’s support and encouragement, the reform of religious art, erotic imagery, the art of the fragment(ed), his relationship with women painters (Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzalès), the temptations of high society, his decision to remain outside the main Impressionism movement and his complicity with Mallarmé.

This exhibition is also rethinking all the relationships that the painter has established or broken, with the public and political sphere, because modernity is also a matter of inclusion or opposition.

This is the first major exhibition devoted to Manet in France since the memorable 1983 exhibition at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais.

Musée d’Orsay : 62, rue de Lille – Paris 7ème

April 5^th – July 3^rd
^{Closed May 1st.}

You can discover this exhibition as a visiting conference – please address the reception desks:

April 12^th – May 6^th
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 11:30 and 14:30
- Thursday at 11:30, 14:30 and 19:00
May 7^th – June 25^th(except June 2^nd
- Tuesday at 11:30 and 14:30
- Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 11:30
- Thursday at 11:30 and 19:00

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Paintings of Paris : Paris’ streets

Hotel Britannique — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:58:21 +0000

There are Paris streets before and after the age of Haussmann. Those before, more original and the product of the anarchic unrbanism of the Middle Ages: the Latin Quarter, the Islands, the Marais and Les Halles. Those after Haussmann, larger and more bourgoise, inaugurated around the middle of the 19th Century. Offering new prespectives, these beautiful grand buildings with their perfectly aligned brickwork facinated and inspired the artists. We find Monet, Gauguin, Pissaro,Caillebotte, Manet and Renoir interpretating with masterful prowess their impressions of the streets of Paris.

Storming of Bastille, July, 14th 1789, by Jean-Baptiste LALLEMAND (Musée Carnavalet)

La prise de la Bastille, le 14 juillet 1789 – par Jean-Baptiste LALLEMAND (Musée Carnavalet) (2)

Claude Monet 1873

Monet, 1873, Paris, Carnival in « boulevard des Capucines »

Boulevard of Capucines in Paris by Monet

Monet, saint lazare station

Eugene Galien Laloue, Paris

« Avenue de Clichy, » 1887, Gauguin, Paris, 1889.

Camille Pissaro, place du Havre, Paris

Pissaro, avenue de l’opera

Pissarro, Boulevard des Italiens (Afternoon)

Gustave Caillebotte, roof of Paris

G. Caillebotte, Balcony street in Paris

My Paris, from the original painting of Caillebotte, Anonyme

Jean Beraud, Paris Street Scene

Jozef Mehoffer, 1894, Boulevard of Clichy

Edouard Manet, Flags

Renoir, « les grands boulevards »

E. Munch

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Manet, the Man who Invented Modern Art, Musée d’Orsay – Exhibition recommended by the Hotel Britannique, Paris

Paintings of Paris : Paris’ streets