Edouard Manet - A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, 400+ words by a 4.0 gpa student.

Edouard Manet – A Bar at the Folies-Bergere Manet was born in France in 1832, and was raised by his parents Auguste and Eugenie-Desiree; a society couple, who's social standing resulted from Auguste's successful career in the Ministry of Justice, Paris. The Bar at the Folies-Bergere, was Manet's last painting before his death in 1883 at the age of 51. The subject is a night and the nightlife at the Folies-Bergere. The central figure of the painting is a …

…perspective. The reflection shows an interaction with a patron who appears to be less than a foot away. Yet the frontal view of the woman shows no such character, because the viewer is meant to be that figure in the painting. ***************************Simulated New Page*************************** Bibliography Rubin, James H. Courbet Art & Ideas. Phaidon Press Ltd. London. 1997. Collins Bradford R. 12 Views of Manet's Bar (The Princeton Series in Nineteenth-Century Art, Culture, and Society). Princeton Univ Press. 1996.