Self Portrait with Palette Édouard Manet (1832-1883)
Édouard Manet – Self Portrait with Palette
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Painter: Édouard Manet
Location: Private Collection
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This painting appears to have been painted before Manet suffered an injury on a bicycle that led him to rheumatism and then to the amputation of his leg. This artist had a terrible fate: he was hated by the critics, despised and laughed at by visitors to the salons where he displayed his work. And finally, the illness actually took time away from his work. In addition, the artist had the misfortune to live at a time when France was just feverish with the abundance of fateful events. But the artist almost never got involved in politics.
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Description of Eduard Manet’s painting Self-Portrait with Brushes
This painting appears to have been painted before Manet suffered an injury on a bicycle that led him to rheumatism and then to the amputation of his leg. This artist had a terrible fate: he was hated by the critics, despised and laughed at by visitors to the salons where he displayed his work. And finally, the illness actually took time away from his work. In addition, the artist had the misfortune to live at a time when France was just feverish with the abundance of fateful events.
But the artist almost never got involved in politics. Although sometimes still had to participate in the revolutionary events. And yet, in spite of the turmoil, he managed to paint. And he worked a lot. Then there was Impressionism, and then again the search for his style. It was for these searches and compromises that his critics beat him up. Even a sick man.
In the self-portrait, everything is just beginning, just the first rudiments of future misfortune. And you can see it - thinness, some wariness in his eyes, but still his main "tool" - his brushes - he firmly holds. It was then that he would have difficulty holding the brush and drawing, overcoming the pain. It will be later, when he is completely ill, that he will be awarded
an honorary order and will be recognized as the greatest artist of France. And when he is gone, the whole of artistic Paris will come to his funeral. Everyone will be there: those who hated him and those who sympathized with him, and everyone will mourn his talent. But that will be when he himself will not hear it.
Such a strange pattern: a talented person is alive - we face him in the mud and throw insults, as soon as he leaves - we recognize his talent and say how sorry he left us so early. And this is not a purely Russian "tradition. It comes from Europe, the case of Manet is a prime example.
This portrait is a reminder to everyone: "What we have, we don’t appreciate. And when we lose, we cry."
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