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A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
1882
The mirror does not quite add up. Modern pleasure, commerce and loneliness occupy the same crowded room.
Artist field note
Edouard Manet
The man who dragged painting into the present.
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The five in one idea
Manet made contemporary life worthy of serious painting - and made painting conscious of its own conventions.