Example sentences for: manet

How can you use “manet” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One occasion was the centenary of Manet's painting Olympia, and The Independent (where else need I turn for material?) ran an article on how the picture's critical reception had changed from rejection by a scandalized France in 1890 to enthusiastic acclaim by an admiring world in 1990.

  • Ever since a scandalized Parisian populace greeted the unveiling of Edouard Manet's Olympia with shocked indignation, controversy has been one measure of seriousness in Western art.

  • It's the uneasy conjunction of race and sexuality that rankles, the suspicion that for Manet, the black maid added a kinky allure to the charms of the snide white prostitute.

  • Newcomers may prefer to start at the top with the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists: Renoir, Cézanne, Manet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, and Van Gogh (this is the best collection of his work outside Amsterdam, with several works from the frenzied months of activity before he died in 1890).

  • How could a serious European artist, a contemporary of Degas' and Manet's, spend his time filling medieval ghost towns with somnambulant knights and maidens?


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