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Edouard Manet (23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern oil subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism painting to Impressionism painting. Edouard Manet, one of the most successful French Realist/Impressionist Painter,born January 23, 1832, Paris. Broke new ground by defying traditional techniques of representation and by choosing subjects from the events and circumstances of his own time.

Edward Manet was born in Paris, France. He studied with Thomas Couture from 1850-1856, he drew at the Academie Suisse and copied the Old Masters at the Musee du Louvre. After he left Couture's studio, Manet traveled in Europe, visiting Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and Italy. In 1861 Manet's paintings were accepted by the Salon and received favorable press, and he began exhibiting his paintings at the Galerie Martinet in Paris. In 1865, Manet's Olympia and Christ Mocked were greeted with great hostility when shown at the Salon. Manet declined to show with the Impressionists in their first exhibition in 1874. In 1881 Manet, then ailing, was decorated with the Legion d'Honneur. Manet was one of the most influential artists of the 19th century whose work inspired the Impressionist style. He became a hero to artists who were trying to break away from outmoded conventions. Manet's ingenuity and original painitings caused scandal and brought criticism not only for his technique, but for his depiction of nudes as real people in contemporary settings, rather than in the accepted style as goddesses in mythological settings.

In 1856, he opened his own studio. Edward Manet oil painting in this period was characterized by loose brush strokes, simplification of details, and the suppression of transitional tones. Adopting the current style of realism initiated by Gustave Courbet, he painted The Absinthe Drinker (1858-59) and other contemporary subjects such as beggars, singers, Gypsies, people in cafes, and bullfights. After his early years, he rarely painted religious, mythological, or historical subjects, examples include his Christ Mocked, now in the Art Institute of Chicago, and Christ with Angels, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

He became friends with the Impressionists Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Paul Cezanne, and Camille Pissarro, through another painter, Berthe Morisot, who was a member of the group and drew him into their activities. The grand niece of the painter Jean-Honore Fragonard, Morisot's paintings. He completed painting his last major work, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere (Le Bar aux Folies-Bergere), in 1882 and it hung in the Salon that year.

His early masterworks, The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia, engendered great controversy and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism Edouard Manet Oil Painting. Today, these are considered watershed paintings that mark the genesis of modern painting art.