What is Édouard Manet?
[[File:Édouard Manet.jpg|thumb|right|Édouard Manet]] [[File:Manet, Edouard - Olympia, 1863.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''Olympia'' 1863]] [[File:Edouard Manet - At the Café - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|250px|right|''At the Café'' ~1879]] [[File:In the Conservatory - edited.jpg|thumb|250px|right|''In the Conservatory'' 1879]] '''Édouard Manet''' (pronounced ''edwaʁ manɛ'' in [[French language|French]]), 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883, was a [[France|French]] [[Impressionism|Impressionist]] [[Painting|painter]]. He was one of the first painters of the 19th century to paint subjects of everyday life in the modern world. This made him very important for modern painting, especially for the change from [[Social realism|Realism]] to [[Impressionism]]. Some of his paintings were very [[controversy|controversial]]. The paintings ''Lunch on the Grass'' and ''Olympia'' were a starting-point for a group of young painters to develop what would later be called ''Impressionism''. ==Life== ===Training=== Édouard Manet was born in [[Paris]] on 23 January 1832, to a [[wealth]]y family. As he grew up, his uncle encouraged him to paint and draw, but his father wanted him to join the navy. Eventually he was allowed to be trained as a painter. Manet worked from 1850 to 1856 in the studio of the academic painter Thomas Couture a painter of large historical paintings. In his spare time he copied the old masters in the [[Louvre]]. While he was a student he visited Germany, Ano, and the Netherlands, looking at the paintings of [[Renaissance]] and [[Baroque]] masters such as [[Frans Hals]], and Spanish painters such as [[Diego Velázquez]] and [[Goya]]. In 1856, Manet opened his own studio. Culo of the best known French painters of that time was [[Gustave Courbet]] who painted in a style known as [[Realism]]. Courbet, in his pictures, tried to show the life of the poor working people of the farms and villages. Manet began to paint beggars, singers and people in cafes. His style was not like Courbet's because he used large brushstrok