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Edouard Manet:
Reluctant Revolutionary

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Wed., Dec. 2 at 6:45 PM
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Manet

A Bar at the Folies-Bergere,
1881-82, by Edouard Manet
(The Courtauld Gallery, London)

 

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Featured Event: Edouard Manet (1832-1883) was a study in contradictions. A Parisian bourgeois flaneur, he became associated with the avant-garde painters known now as the impressionists. He had a traditional art education and admired the old masters, but he developed a loose, painterly technique and preferred to paint scenes of everyday urban life. In his most daring works like Dejeuner sur l’herbe and Olympia, he rejected traditional conventions, creating art that followed artist and social observer Honore Daumier’s mandate: One must be of one’s own time.

Art historian Bonita Billman discusses Manet’s life and career and analyzes his contributions to the impressionist movement. Buy tickets>>

Upcoming Event: Joan Sutherland (1926–2010) was considered by many to be the greatest opera singer of her time—no small accomplishment, considering her contemporaries included Maria Callas, Leontyne Price, and Luciano Pavarotti. 

Opera expert Fred Plotkin, who knew and worked with Sutherland and her husband, pays tribute to the life and career of this legendary Australian star. In a talk highlighted by audio and video recordings, he provides fascinating insights about what made Sutherland one of the world’s greatest opera singers.
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Henry Hudson: A Navigator’s Fate
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An Evening with Tom Brokaw
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Edouard Manet: Reluctant Revolutionary
Evening Program
Wed., Dec. 2 at 6:45 PM

Art historian Bonita Billman discusses artist Edouard Manet’s life and career and analyzes his contributions to the impressionist movement. (World Art History Certificate elective)
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Edith Piaf: Passion, With No Regrets
Evening Program with Reception
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