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From: pete
Category: Exhibitions
Date: 12 December 2004
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/current/exhibitions.html
manet faces manet, and what does he see. He sees a boy and then turns round to view a fed-up bar maid. Manet always appealed to my adolescent admiration for painting panache and dazzle, a carefree ability to create surfaces and space. Manet sees that the critics and interpreters want to mire him in meanings. He knows they want to stuff him full of ideas about the viewer, the subject/object, and reams of psycho drama, and he concedes that these thoughts crossed his mind too, yet ultimately miss the simple impossibility of painting people in places.
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