Edouard Manet (Paris; 1832 ndash; 1883)Manet est lun des plus ceacute;legrave;bres artistes de la seconde moitieacute; du XIXe siegrave;cle; lieacute; aux impressionnistes sans faire vraiment partie de leur groupe. Cheacute;rissant son indeacute;pendance; il eut une grande influence sur la peinture franccedil;aise; en partie due au choix de ses sujets tireacute;s de la vie quotidienne; de son usage de couleurs pures et de sa technique rapide et libre. Cest son oelig;uvre qui assura la transition entre le reacute;alisme de Courbet et la vision novatrice des impressionnistes.Issu de la grande bourgeoisie; il choisit de devenir peintre apregrave;s avoir rateacute; son entreacute;e agrave; lEcole navale. Il se forma aupregrave;s de Thomas Couture; un peintre acadeacute;mique; mais cest gracirc;ce agrave; ses nombreux voyages agrave; travers lEurope quil entreprit degrave;s 1852; quil commenccedil;a agrave; se faire une ideacute;e de ce quallait ecirc;tre son style propre.Ses premiegrave;res peintures eacute;taient essentiellement des scegrave;nes de genre; inspireacute;es par son amour pour les maicirc;tres espagnols comme Velazquez et Goya; et le portrait. Cest en 1863 quil preacute;senta son chef-doelig;uvre Le Deacute;jeuner sur lherbe au Salon des refuseacute;s. Son oelig;uvre deacute;clenchant une poleacute;mique entre les deacute;fenseurs de lart acadeacute;mique et les jeunes artistes laquo;refuseacute;s raquo;; il devint le chef de file de cette nouvelle geacute;neacute;ration dartistes.A partir de 1864; le salon officiel accepta ses travaux; provoquant toujours de veacute;heacute;mentes protestations comme ce fut le cas avec Olympia en 1865. En 1866; leacute;crivain Zola eacute;crivit un article en faveur du travail de Manet. A cette eacute;poque; le peintre eacute;tait ami avec tous les futurs grands maicirc;tres impressionnistes : Edgar Degas; Claude Monet; Auguste Renoir; Alfred Sisley; Camille Pissarro et Paul Ceacute;zanne; qui sinfluenccedil;aient les uns les autres ; pourtant il restait deacute;libeacute;reacute;ment agrave; lexteacute;rieur du groupe. En effet; en 1874 il refusa de preacute;senter ses peintures lors de leur premiegrave;re exposition. Sa derniegrave;re apparition dans un salon officiel fut en 1882 avec Un Bar aux Folies-Bergegrave;re; lune de ses oelig;uvres les plus connues. Atteint par la gangregrave;ne au cours de lanneacute;e 1883; il peignit des natures mortes de fleurs jusquau moment ougrave; il ne sen sentit plus capable; et il mourut en laissant derriegrave;re lui un grand nombre de dessins et de peintures.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Fabulous ideas for creativityBy BigATCThe only poor review; as of this writing; indicates that there is insufficient detail how the photograph was done and why. I cannot disagree more. If you want to learn about f-stops; depth of field (DOF); and other concrete info about how a camera works and what results one gets from various settings then there are numerous other books out there.This book; for me at least; is directed to sparking your own creativity and training yourself to take more than snapshots. I started thinking about improving my photography starting in high school classes circa 1977. Iv taken classes and read books about composition and feel pretty happy with my general skill level. Looking at Mr. Dykingas photographs and reading about his thought processes is the "Magic" in this book. Looking at the scene and thinking about how I would compose an image vs seeing what Jack did has really allowed me to think about how the subject CAN be emphasized in various ways and how to better introduce feeling and stories into a photo. I found Mr. Dykingas writing style to be very engaging and enjoyable. This is a book that I expect to read again in its entirety and to utilize often to spark my own creativity. I have better learned how to "see" opportunities for great photographs all around me and how to be patient and more thoughtful in attaining that image.I would also say that I read this book on a 7 inch kindle HD and it is well formatted and easy to read. It now looks even better on an 8.9 inch HDX!5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Something beyond "this is a camera; this is what aperture means"By Dennis R. MaccaskieBesides the fact that I really; really like Dykingas pictures; this is the best ever how-to photo book. Finally; we have one that doesnt tell us over and over about the rule of thirds or depth of field; or what "aperture" means. Instead; this one is about composition for us intermediate or advanced non-professional photographers; and actually presents some of Dykingas thought processes. Theres a few examples of photos that were improved on later; so you can see what was wrong with them. The only thing wrong with the book is that it isnt twice as big as it is; and when the 2nd edition comes out twice the size of this one the comment will still be true.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Good advice from a Master Photographer.By Old KidAs with most helpful advice from a talented artist; its kind of intangible. He points out the very interesting way he shoots; but Im not clear how he finds and extracts the extraordinary scenes from nature. Still; by looking at the shots Jack takes; and his descriptions of what makes the shot good; you learn a lot. To get the most out of the book; I have to go out and try to find the Magic for myself. I cant learn it all just from reading.A the back; he provides technical data for every picture in the book. In the book you can find a picture you want to know more about; and look it up in the technical index in the back.Not very easily on a Kindle; unless you put in bookmarks. Additionally; on the Kindle; the pictures are very small and frequently on a different page than the text that describes how and why the photographs were shot. Its a little annoying.
