Edouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

I'm going to talk today about one of Manet's best works, I'm going to the Folies-Bergère. It is a painting that applies profoundly to the experience of Manet de Paris. During the 1860s, when Manet was just beginning his career, Baron Haussmann a cassé beaucoup de Paris médiéval was born in Paris. And build the great boulevards, the parks and theatres We are today in Paris. For Manet, the Folies-Bergère was the genre of entertainment venue nouveau He would have visited. He was part of a middle class plus rich et croissante I had maintenance and money to spend. We can say that it is the most expensive of a kind of venue known as le Café Concert, in part because of the chandeliers and the decor, but also because of the products on sale, Like the champagne, the clementines. There's also a beer de la basse, Who may represent the international audience who came to the bar. We can see the kind of interview they might have been looking at. There are just a few feet of acrobats crouched in the coin. When the painting was experimented in 1882, She would look like a very modern image. The critics were most confused and perhaps surprised. By the expression of the barmaid. They couldn't have been exactly the emotion she was mounting. I didn't feel any emotion. A critic described her as weak and soft, Another like a cardboard cup from a window. Whatever the expression of the barmaid, She is certainly very detached from her living environments. The famous art historian, T.J. Clarke, He described it as the face of fashion. He described him, his immaculate hair and his makeup, Like a kind of garment, a mask, A way of managing the modern world. The composition was also quite surprising for the spectators of the XIXe siècle. We know that the scene represents a mirror. In the background, des écharpes on the glass, And also the golden screen that chains downwards. But if we look at the barmaid's angle, It's not what we expect in the reflection. There is also a rather dark figure of a man in the reflection Who's not in the bottom. A simple explanation may be That just makes the composition more interesting. This adds more movement and action. Also, by changing the angles, Manet opened up the possible signs and narratives of this painting. In addition to the composition, The technique also represented a great delay with the convention. Manet a varié son travail de peinture dans le canvas was a French painter. to draw our attention to the different areas of the painting. The size of the work It would also have added to the confusion of the spectators of the 19th century. They would have probably assumed that a woman of this size In a pose quite calm, quite symmetrical, almost large, It would be someone important. But in fact, she's just a humble barmaid. They wouldn't even know his name. The fact that she works in a bar, in particular the Folies-Bergère, a peut-être conduit à certains d'assumer a possible cause of the accident She could also be a prostitute. We now know that the barmaid was a lady named Suzanne. who worked in the Folies-Bergère. Sa réflexion fatiguée is a very good example. Maybe it's the result of long days of work. A long change in the bar. This could also possibly have resulted I'm going to sit down during the long and delicate sessions with Manet. We know he worked quite slowly. He produced drawings of the painting, in fact, in the bar, But then he worked on them later in his studio. Manet was in fact very ill when he painted this work. In fact, he was mortally ill. Some people believe that it could be Manet. which summarized its own world personnel, his own experiences in Paris. The people have suggested the same thing. That the figure drawn of the man He could represent Manet himself. It is possible that the whole painting It's like a farewell. To the world that had loved him so much.