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I know about Claude Monet but who was Manet?
Claude Monet is famous for those breathtaking scenery and impressionist artworks look at some Monet oil paintings here:
http://www.overstockart.com/monrep.html
But who was Manet?
Manet was an impressionist painter .He used a lot of black unlike Monet and the idea of the impressionists using small stokes of pure colour. He was very influenced by Velasquez paintings which he has visited in Spain . Velasquez painted what he saw unlike the classical painters of his time and so can be called the inventer of impressionism . His painting called Dejeuner sur L’herbe ( lunch on the grass or picnic !) was rather shocking at the time as it shows a real naked girl unlike classical nudes which are ideas of beauty ,love etc. having the picnic with real men . Manet’s brother married Berthe Morrisot another impressionist painter.
Some of his painting do work with delicious paint and are rather like Velasquez which you will have guessed is one of my heros but some are rather laboured and heavy Anyway after all this I think you ought look him up on google
