the last day before its ready

i'm putting the finishing touches on the presentation and research. it's unfortunate that i missed two class periods that were days to work, but i got it finished anyways. the written description is finished, the presentation just needs to be organized, and a little bit more research might need to be done. other than that, i think i'll be good for tomorrow.

it seems like it will be pretty difficult to get seven full minutes of an analytical monologue done by monday, when i'm presenting.

its been a while

i wasn't here on friday so i missed some time to work. i decided i'm going to compare the races at longchamp to one picture by goya (the one Manet was influenced by), and one by Renoir (the one he influenced himself). from my research so far, it seems as though Manet was considerably well off for a painter.

Edourd Manet

born january 23, 1832, in paris, France. died April 30, 1883

even at a young age, manet was interesting in painting and drawings. his uncle enjoyed the fact that he was interested in art, and took him on various outings. Manet liked the art of the past, works from people like Velazques and Goya. Manet wanted art to be a representation of the present, though, and in his art he attemped to depict contemporary realism.

Manet's first popular painting was The Absinthe Drinker (1858), depicting a man in a tophat and red robes in an alley with several alcoholic drinks around him. this and a couple of his other paintings were generally darker than most paintings.

Today...

I mostly used this site: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/manet/ to study the Manet and his works. i learned that his work before he started doing impressionism was influential to other artists (Monet, Deglas, Renoir, Etc). he then switched to impressionism in around 1873.

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I'm pretty sure at this point that I'm going to do research on The Races at Longchamp by Manet. I still have a lot of stuff to figure out in regards to the artist and why the painting itself was made. I'm going to spend some time researching the artist and what he was known for next.