Manet and neurological absences Archives - Wolfie Wolfgang https://wolfiewolfgang.com/tag/manet-and-neurological-absences/ Check in for my regular blogs and reviews Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fav.png Manet and neurological absences Archives - Wolfie Wolfgang https://wolfiewolfgang.com/tag/manet-and-neurological-absences/ 32 32 Spending some time with Édouard Manet https://wolfiewolfgang.com/spending-some-time-with-edouard-mane/ https://wolfiewolfgang.com/spending-some-time-with-edouard-mane/#comments Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0000 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/?p=457 Édouard Manet (1832-1883) Last month I was in Paris where I spent some time at the inspirational D’Orsay museum where no one works were more impressive than Manet’s and where, because this was out of the tourist season,  I could stand alone in front of his most famous picture and marvel. I also realized that […]

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Édouard Manet (1832-1883)

Last month I was in Paris where I spent some time at the inspirational D’Orsay museum where no one works were more impressive than Manet’s and where, because this was out of the tourist season,  I could stand alone in front of his most famous picture and marvel. I also realized that I wasn’t going to be seeing this at the London Manet exhibition which is still running and where I’m off to today.


The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l’herbe) 1863


I’ve known and loved his  

Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère for a long time as it has its permanent home in London at the Courtauld Institute but I noticed when I was last there that it wasn’t on exhibition so I’m hoping to see it again at the royal Academy’s blockbuster exhibition.

 I have known it since student days but it now has added poignancy for me not only because i have visited many more bars since I first saw this painting but also because that distant look on the barmaid’s face now reminds me of the feeling I get, post brain haemorrhage, when I have what the neurologist called an “absence” – a moment often in a crowded space when my mind just leaves the room for a moment or two. Manet makes me feel that it is not always a bad thing to go absent. I’m looking forward to this new encounter with one of France’s greatest artists.


A Bar at the Folies-Bergère  (Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère), 1882


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