Manet: The Man Who Invented Modern Art
2009 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 133 VOTES · DIR. Waldemar Januszczak
Overview
Manet is one of the main candidates for the title of the most important artist there has been. As the reluctant father of Impressionism, and the painter of Dejeuner sur l'herbe, he can probably be accused of inventing modern art. But his story is fascinating on many other levels. As a piece of compelling biography, Manet's is the unlikely tale of the stubborn son of the most highly placed judge in France who decides to become an artist and embarrass his father. The resulting family tensions are the stuff of legend. Then there was Manet's dramatic private life, including exotic romantic affairs and a particularly horrible death. Always cited as the father of the Impressionists, Manet stubbornly refused to show with them, and was careful to maintain an aesthetic distance from Monet, Renoir and the others. While they worshipped him, he looked down on them.
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00:00:02 PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
00:04:32 The father was a really important figure in the French judiciary.
00:08:45 When he came back, he failed his naval exams.
00:12:56 An ancient city was being forced to become a modern one, whether it wanted to or not.
00:16:22 One could add white paint, but you won't get the same softness and that sort of
00:20:28 who sang and danced under the glorious stage-name of Lola de Valence.
00:24:43 Some sort of cover-up was definitely being orchestrated -
00:28:43 was selected by a jury of France's most-conservative artists.
00:32:43 The men were callow students
00:35:35 But would that have been worth all this pictorial effort?
00:39:19 how and where Manet met Victorine Meurant.
00:42:48 And so, on 28th October, two days before Suzanne's 34th birthday
00:46:34 complained Le Moniteur Universel.
00:50:07 We're the ones who sent her the flowers.
00:53:08 And we know, unlike many artists, that Manet's studio was
00:56:38 Maximilian was well-meaning and naive.
01:00:15 This figure here fiddling with his gun is crucial.
01:04:10 describes a delicious new recipe that everyone in Paris was trying.
01:07:40 This famous painting, Le Balcon, has been invented twice.
01:10:16 decided they'd had enough of being rejected by the Paris Salon, so they organised their own exhibition.
01:14:26 Manet had worked outdoors before, on the beach, by the sea, but never as keenly as he did during
01:18:13 You become unsteady on your feet and more likely to fall.
01:21:54 At least, I think she's sad.
01:25:32 but they can't change the fact that this is a painting about a girl lost in her own thoughts.