How Manet'S &Quot;A Bar At The Folies-Berg&Quot; Is Constructed
Submitted by madnotes on May 23, 2008
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How Manet'S &Quot;A Bar At The Folies-Berg&Quot; Is Constructed
~douardM anet painted A Bur at the Folies-Bergire (fig. l), his last great
and ambitious painting, in 1881-82 when he was already gravely ill-he
would die a year later-and showed it at the Salon that same year, with
as little hope as ever that he would at last reach his true public. Throughout
all his career, he had often been rejected by the Salon jury, even more
often demolished by the critics, and occasionally lampooned by the press.
He knew that the medal of the Legion of Honor, recently awarded to him
through the efforts of his friend Antonin Proust, was hardly likely to render
his painting any more comprehensible for his...
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