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Cezanne’s childhood friend Emile Zola showed an early interest in painting. He was particularly interested in artists rejected by official critics. In 1866 he wrote an article on Edouard Manet in the newspaper La Revue du XIXe siècle ( La Revue du XIXe siècle ) and defended him again the following year when he organized a private exhibition on the fringes of the Universal Exhibition. Zola saw the traditionalist-debated artist as one of the future masters and believed his place belonged to the Louvre. In 1867, the essay was published as a blue-covered pamphlet, which can be seen in its entirety on the work’s desk. To thank him, Manet proposed to paint a portrait of Zola.
On the wall is a reproduction of Manet’s Olympia, a painting that sparked a furious scandal at the 1865 Salon, but which Zola considers Manet’s best work. Behind it is an engraving of Velázquez’s Bacchus, indicating the painter’s and writer’s shared taste for Spanish art. A print of a Japanese wrestler for the second purpose of Utagawa Kuniaki completes the wall decoration. The Far East revolutionized the concept of perspective and color in European painting and played a central role in the emergence of new painting styles. The Japanese screen to the left of the picture suggests this. So… tons of art everywhere!
Zola sat at his workbench. In his hand he held a book, probably L’Histoire des peintres by Charles Blanc, which Manet frequently consulted . The inkwell and quill pen on the table symbolize the profession of a writer.
Why are we introducing Zola today? I always see this picture scene when I think about how the writers for DailyArt magazine work when they write articles! On this day in 2016, we launched DailyArt Magazine , which started out as a small blog, an extension of the DailyArt DailyArt app. Now, thanks to the hard work of our editorial team and our brave writers and proofreaders, we publish something new every day about art history, and we’ve become the premier place to read about art on the internet. We hope DailyArt Magazine is part of your daily art stream. ?
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