A Bar at the Folies Bergère (1882) of Edouard-Manet in Courtauld Gallery and its inspiration

To keep up with our previous post about Courtauld Gallery, we are pleased to introduce with you all two beautiful artworks that surprisingly linked with each other:
A very famous artwork of Edouard-Manet, “A Bar at the Folies Bergère” (1882) and Jeff Wall, "A Picture for women"

Let’s enjoy both (artworks) together!

A Bar at the Folies Bergère of Edouard Manet is displayed in the Room Six archive of Courtauld Gallery

Édouard Manet - A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882)

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère depicts a scene from ‘Modern’ Parisian life: a young barmaid poised behind the bar of a bustling night-club. The barmaid is shown before a mirror, which reflects the audience watching a performance. It is quite rare and revolutionary for a a common woman to be portrayed in such a controversial setting (a bar) like this during the 19th century in Europe.

Probably because of this reason, during his time studying at the Courtauld Institute in London, Jeff Wall was intrigued to study this work by Edouard Manet– a 19th century French impressionist who was famous for painting social Parisian life.

Later on in his career, Jeff Wall’s work A Bar at the Folies-Bergère from 1882 bears a striking similarity to Wall’s picture, taken almost a century later. Jeff Wall described his photograph Picture for Women as a ‘remake’ of Édouard Manet’s painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère.

Jeff Wall - A Picture for women (1979)

This artwork is now displayed in the Centre Georges Pompidou*, Paris

The motif of the mirror reflection is fundamental to both artworks and foregrounds mutual concerns about spectatorship, the dynamics of the gaze and spatial relations. In each case, the mirror transforms pictorial space by reincorporating the off-frame zone, juxtaposing heterogeneous fields of vision and conflating multiple surfaces.

Please enjoy both, compare and try to find as much as possible the similarities between them pointing the influences / inspirations of Edouard-Manet's artwork.

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* Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris houses the Public Information Library, a vast public library; the Musée National d'Art Moderne, which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe

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Cảm hứng từ tác phẩm A Bar at the Folies Bergère của Edouard Manet

Tiếp theo post trước của chúng tôi về Courtauld Gallery, nay chúng tôi rất hân hạnh giới thiệu với các bạn hai tác phẩm nghệ thuật tuyệt đẹp có mối liên hệ với nhau một cách kỳ lạ:

Đó là tác phẩm “A Bar at the Folies Bergère” (1882) nổi tiếng của Edouard Manet và tác phẩm "A Picture for women" của Jeff Wall.

Các bạn hãy thưởng thức cả hai tác phẩm trên, hãy so sánh và cố gắng tìm ra càng nhiều càng tốt những điểm tương đồng giữa chúng cho thấy sức ảnh hưởng, niềm cảm hứng mà Edouard Manet có được đối với nghệ sỹ trẻ cách mình cả thế kỷ mạnh như thế nào

Ghi chú: Tác phẩm A Bar at the Folies Bergère của Edouard Manet hiện được trưng bày tại Courtauld Gallery (Phòng 6 - Room Six); còn tác phầm A Picture for women của Jeff Wall hiện được trưng bày tại Centre Georges Pompidou*, Paris - Viện bảo tàng nghệ thuật hiện đại lớn nhất Châu Âu

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Courtauld Gallery Virtual Tour

CUC Gallery would like to introduce to all of our friends a very must-see art museum in Europe in COVID-19 condition. It’s the Courtauld Gallery - one of London’s and world’s worth-see art museums.

The collection stretches from the early Renaissance into the 20th century and is displayed in the elegant setting of Somerset House, one of the city’s most dynamic cultural venues.

The Gallery is particularly renowned for its unrivalled collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, including masterpieces by Monet, Van Gogh and Gauguin and the largest collection of Cézannes in the UK.The Gallery also holds an ou…

The Gallery is particularly renowned for its unrivalled collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, including masterpieces by Monet, Van Gogh and Gauguin and the largest collection of Cézannes in the UK.

The Gallery also holds an outstanding collection of drawings and prints and fine works of sculpture and decorative arts.

The virtual tour uses a new photographic technique to show The Courtauld Gallery in exceptional close-up quality.You can roam each room of the Gallery and zoom in to look closely at masterpieces from our collection such as Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Po…

The virtual tour uses a new photographic technique to show The Courtauld Gallery in exceptional close-up quality.

You can roam each room of the Gallery and zoom in to look closely at masterpieces from our collection such as Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear or Édouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, from individual brush strokes to the texture of the paint.

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