Emily A. Beeny: "Édouard Manet and the Illusion of Effortlessness"

Emily A. Beeny, Associate Curator of Drawings, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Claude Monet once remarked that Manet “always wanted his painting to look as if done at the first attempt,” but the truth was more complicated. Manet went to great lengths to perfect his work and even greater lengths to conceal the effort involved. From his earliest oil paintings to his late watercolors, this lecture contrasts Manet’s cultivation of a reputation for effortlessness with the arduous reality of his practice.

[@kathleenbrady9916]

Thanks so much for your illuminating talk on my favourite artist, Manet; wonderful to know more about how he worked and to be given a sense of the real man's process. 🙏

[@juliashearer7842]

Fascinating. Thank you

[@ritabiro5105]

Moneys salon and works are everlasting and great.Thanks for your lectures some of them l have seen in Paris Dorsay Muzeum and in Palace of Arts in Budapest.Fricks collection must have also some beautiful.

[@alteredcatscyprus]

This is the kindest thing I can think of to say, and I say this as a woman and a painter: What you folks understand about men and artists is not a lot.

[@nidhishshivashankar4885]

Catty 🙄

[@michaelbaenen2388]

Well done. The late profile portraits are hardly my favorite works by Manet, but I appreciate being pushed to look at them more closely. And Dr. Beeny is a fine lecturer.

[@thomascreeley3627]

Brilliant lecture.

[@annemytka6507]

Did Edouard Monet paint in water colour, and cover with glass mine is about over 100 years old, the frame is in terrible condition Anne Marie Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 thank you 😊

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[@salassian3162]

What's wrong with the closed captions of this video? Is google having a meltdown?

[@frickcollection]

Thank you for pointing out the error. The video has been given new captions.

[@adagietto2523]

Very informative about his illustrated correspondence, with those wonderful little watercolours.

[@annemytka6507]

Did Eduard Monet paint pastel on paper

[@annemytka6507]

I have a Edward Manet looks very old but, she looks like a pastel on paper?

[@garyhiles5564]

Very interesting and informative lecture.

[@anklamer]

Brilliant! Learned a lot of new stuff!

[@mahdadnassiri3217]

Why such a focus on correspondence sketches!

[@BlackNarcissus9]

“Zizi” the cat 😆 (French slang for peepee)

[@rampartrod]

thank god for the frick!