Each morning would begin with a 1-hour demo of Manet’s approach to portraiture: 1) GEORGE MOORE (pastel) and 2) BERTHE MORISOT (oil or pastel) followed by 2 hours of a pastel or oil block in “in the manner of Manet” per the demo. In the afternoons we would work from the same model “in the manner of Manet.” We would need one costumed model in the same pose for both afternoons which gives participants one full day to work on their portraits.
Following on the heels of the MANET DEGAS Exhibition at The MET/NY, we’ll work primarily in pastels “in the manner of” Edouard Manet during our Two-Day Workshop, producing two “master copy sketches” and one original portrait working from a live model over two afternoons. Although the emphasis will be on pastels, the loose sketch approach is applicable to both pastel and oils and we encourage you to try each, i.e., a morning warmup “color sketch” in pastel and afternoon sustained oil portrait, as you wish.
Location: Bryan Memorial Gallery
Duration: Two Days, 9 AM Noon and 1PM to 4PM (six hours each day)
- AM Demo: GEORGE MOORE, by Edouard MANET (followed by 2 hours of a “Loose Sketch” Master Copy as group warmup
- Lunch Break: Noon to 1PM
- PM Studio: Begin a PORTRAIT w/ LIVE MODEL IN COSTUME
- AM Demo: BERTHE MORISOT, in pastel or oil followed by 2 hours of a “Loose Sketch” Master Copy
- Lunch Break: Noon to 1PM
- PM Studio: Continue PORTRAIT w/ LIVE MODEL IN COSTUME
1) Title: George Moore (1852–1933)
Artist: Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris)
Date: 1879
Medium: Pastel on canvas
Dimensions: 21 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. (55.2 x 35.2 cm)
This pastel, executed in one sitting, depicts the Irish critic and novelist George Moore. He used it as the frontispiece for his book Modern Painting (1893), noting that as "a fresh-complexioned, fair-haired young man, the type most suitable to Manet's palette, [the artist] at once asked [him] to sit." Critics ridiculed this work when it was exhibited in 1880, calling it "Le Noyé repêché" (the drowned man fished out of the water). The picture is Manet’s only completed portrait of Moore; one of his unfinished canvases, George Moore at the Café (55.193), is in the Museum's collection.
Location: The MET Museum, New York
2) Title: Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets
Artist: Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris)
Date: 1872
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 55.5 cm × 40.5 cm (21.9 in × 15.9 in)
Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets is an 1872 oil painting depicting fellow painter Berthe Morisot dressed in black mourning dress, with a barely visible bouquet of violets. Sometimes known as Portrait of Berthe Morisot, Berthe Morisot in a black hat or Young woman in a black hat, is in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Manet also created an etching and two lithographs of the same composition
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