Édouard Manet

Okay, so pair two.

Degas and Manet.

This one's Messier.

So much messier.

Degas was deeply offended, and that wound never really healed.

They were part of the same circle in Paris in the 1860s and 70s, but their approaches were completely different.

Manet was bold and confrontational.

Degas was introspective, obsessed with technique even as he pushed against tradition.

When did you first walk into a walled garden? Because there is something that kind of hortus conclusus is something so delightful about that enclosure and that warmth and often the red brick of a wall.

When did that first encounter with the outside and also a relish of the weed? Because I think that is very key to your practice and what inspires you and that sense of the still life often in some of your early work is still life flowers in a vase and that you're inspired by the late paintings of Manet and the idea of control and order, chaos and order.

It's an interesting question because I hadn't really thought of it as being important but I think the first time I'd been into like a walled vegetable garden was when I was very very young in my godmother's house which was always a really safe nice place to be so yeah.

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It doesn't look like it's going to have any sort of real negative effect one way or the other on the AEW show.

The other thing we had was a Mercedes Manet celebration.

She is the new AEW Women's World Champion.

She beat Willow Nightingale at Wembley.

Ultimately, this was only a scheme to swipe valuable works of art.

The suspects tied up the guards and stole 13 pieces of art valued at more than $500 million including works by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas and Manet.

It is the most significant theft of private property in terms of sheer value in history.

It is speculated that the robbery was the work of a criminal organization but no arrests have ever been made.

The Impressionists in particular, who were, you know, the Parisian scene, were fascinated.

Manet and Van Gogh and Whistler and all these different people.

And Mary Cassatt was very much taken with the works of Utamaro, who was an artist who was known for his bijinga, which bijinga are beautiful women.

So the idea of creating these portraits of women who either existed or were archetypes, or so they might be famous courtesans or they might be the idea of a woman and so Mary Cassatt takes a lot of that iconography and translates it from a female perspective so she inserts a more domestic sensibility and this image in particular uses the idea of the nape of the neck and the back was seen as like as a specific area of beauty within the female figure um within uh the prince of a tomorrow and other people um but what's fantastic is a you can see the influences not only in that composition but in the flatness that mary cassatt uses so