NATIONAL GALLERY, The Railway By Manet
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Language: English / USA
Edouard Manet, born into a rich and influential middle-class family in Paris, is one of the greatest representatives of French painting.
He is often wrongly associated with Impressionists. The truth is he admired and was friends with them, especially Monet, yet Manet falls within the Realist tradition, albeit with Romantic and Modernist influences.
An admirer of the French Naturalism of Flaubert and Zola in particular, Manet liked to portray everyday life and the middle-class environment in which he lived, looking for objectivity by shining the light on social changes....