French1832–1883
Édouard Manet
A Parisian painter who shocked the Salon with modern subjects painted in flat, bold areas of colour. He was close to the Impressionists but never showed in their exhibitions.
A life in paintings
- 1832Born
- 1841Paint in tubes
The collapsible metal paint tube is patented, making it practical to paint outdoors.
- 1863Salon des Refusés
Paintings rejected by the official Salon are shown in a separate exhibition, and crowds come to see them.
Source: Wikipedia - 1870Franco-Prussian War
War breaks out. Manet stays in Paris and serves in the National Guard during the siege, alongside Degas.
- 1874The first Impressionist exhibition
His friends hold the first Impressionist exhibition. Manet refuses to join them and keeps sending his work to the Salon.
Worked with Claude MonetArgenteuilIn July and August 1874 Manet stayed at his family's house in Gennevilliers, just across the Seine from Monet at Argenteuil. The two saw each other often that summer, sometimes joined by Renoir, and Manet took up their lighter palette and painting out of doors.
Source: The Met - 1883Died
Circles
Exhibition · New York, Chicago, Boston · 1913
Armory Show (1913)
The International Exhibition of Modern Art that introduced European modern art to American audiences, shown in New York, Chicago and Boston in 1913. Members here are artists whose work was included, living or not.
- Alfred Sisley
- Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso
- André Derain
- Camille Pissarro
- Childe Hassam
- Claude Monet
- Edgar Degas
- Edvard Munch
- Edward Hopper
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Ferdinand Hodler
- Fernand Léger
- George Wesley Bellows
- Georges Seurat
- Gustave Courbet
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Joseph Stella
- Marsden Hartley
- Mary Cassatt
- Maurice Prendergast
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Signac
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Robert Delaunay
- Vincent van Gogh
- Wassily Kandinsky
- William Glackens