Les Silences De Manet

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A comprehensive portrait of French painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883), placing him in the social, political, and artistic context of his time. Close-up views of the artist's works, filmed at acclaimed Manet exhibitions held in Paris and New York, are the highlights of this biography of an artist who charted his own course, creating paintings which shocked his contemporaries, or were met with disdain.

Curator's Comments: Manet's painting may have been oases of silence in the turbulence of 19th-century Parisian politics and artistic developments, but they generated a lot of critical noise. This is a good introduction to the artist and his work; it also offers a glimpse of the political upheavals that characterized the France of the Second Empire, the Paris Commune, and the Third Republic. Sound track becomes rather annoying: too much clip-clop of horses's hooves and screeching strings.

DATE: 1989

COUNTRY: France

CREDITS:
Director: Didier Baussy
Producing Agency: RM Arts; Pioneer LDC, Inc.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
56 minutes Color

TOPICS:
History--France
Painting--Impressionist

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