April 15, 1874
JUNE 16–SEPT 9 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery
PARIS GAZETTE quatre pages
THE PAINTERS’ PARIDISE
The Normandy coast only hours away by train offers rock arches, sea mists, sunrises & fashionable beach resorts to impress.
équité et équilibre cinq centimes
Scandalous!
MANET’S PAINTING RIDICULED AT SALON SHOW
incoherent… baffling… sketchy The man is as incorrigible as his art is incoherent! Having spent the past decade or more deriding good taste and hacking away at public decency, with his noxious scenes of banal inconsequence, M. Édouard Manet rewards with yet another. This time it is a young girl, the poor thing cobbled together from a fleeting assemblage of brushwork that appears as though it was executed through the window of a speeding train. What can we make of this? What we are given is not so much a painting, not even so much as a study. Indeed, before we see we rank a girl and a bench, we simply the genres see pigment—raw, unmolded, 1. Religious paint! Does M. Manet expect his audience to peer into his 2. Historical paintings as one would a forest 3. Portraiture at night, in a vain attempt to discern a path that leads to his 4. Landscapes confounding intention? Let me be neither the first nor the last to assure you, there is no path. He may have yet to identify with the Impressionists, that sad cadre of paint throwers that recently began waging war against optical sanity, but with a picture such as this M. Manet shows himself their kindred spirit.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The Vineyards at Cagnes, 1908. Oil on canvas. 46.4 x 55.2 cm. frame: 69.5 x 79.4 x 10.8 cm. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Colonel and Mrs. Edgar W. Garbisch. 51.219 Photo: Brooklyn Museum
They Call Themselves “Anonymous Society” We Call Them Absurd! The jury for the Salon de Paris exhibition fully understands the perfection demanded by the Académie des Beaux-Arts. The fine detail, the blended colours, the historical and religious themes. All of this has been abandoned by these Impressionists. Outraged art critic Louis Leroy writes “Impression! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished!” Critic Albert Wolff asks that the Impressionist understand that “trees are not violet, that sky is not the colour of fresh butter.” What we have
TWO MISGUIDED WOMEN Our esteemed colleague, Albert Wolff of Le Figaro, describes the show by these “Impressionists,” as preposterous! We are aghast that there are women among their number. Such audacity! We shall illuminate…
Berthe Morisot As is well known, women are denied entrance to the École des Beaux-Arts so Mlle Morisot sought numerous mentors, currently Édouard Manet. Mlle Morisot was first accepted in the prestigious Salon exhibit in 1864 and every subsequent year until now. Yet, she has abandoned the Salon and joined with the Impressionists. While her paintings have what has been described as “feminine charm,” a light touch that has enchanted some critics, she has made it known to one and all that even though she will become Mme Eugène
Manet, she will continue to sign her paintings Berthe Morisot. Mon Dieu!
Mary Cassatt Mlle Cassatt is Philadelphian, born in the United States and so we shall henceforth refer to her as Miss Cassatt. Miss Cassatt attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where at least they had the common sense to draw from casts instead of live models. Can you imagine? The more of her work we see, the more we are troubled. She purposely paints pictures of her younger sister at the theatre with no obvious chaperone in sight! In fact many of her works exhibit such disregard of the norm. She goes as far as to show women reading. Reading! What will they expect next? The vote? This is not acceptable behaviour.
are slapdash paintings with colour splotches and not a hint of detail. Their desire to preserve the moment is a horror to behold. If you must see these sketches passing as paintings, they are currently on display. Certainly there are well-known artists exhibiting—Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, PierreAuguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and Berthe Morisot. The question we must ask is WHY?
SOCIAL NOTES Morisot & Manet to Wed We are most pleased with the impending marriage of Mlle Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot to M. Eugène Manet, esteemed brother of M. Édouard Manet. Mlle Morisot comes from an upstanding family who schooled their daughters in all the womanly arts, including painting. To our surprise Mlle Morisot, who has been exhibiting in the prestigious Salon de Paris show in the past years, will now exhibit with the “Impressionists”! We must assume that after her nuptials she will abandon this painting fascination and Mme Manet will start raising a family with her husband, Eugène. We wish the happy couple all the joy in the world and look forward to a never-ending stream of petits Manets.
REVOLUTIONARY! Now you have the choice, mix your own paints or buy them prepared in tubes! Tubes are easy to use & easy to carry!
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