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Clarity, Contour, urbanity and virtuous ability to handle paint-such are the qualities that first strike us in ’s art. Before we attempt to analyze the meaning of what’s within Edouard ’s work entitled still life, Grapes and figs, one must first identify, an ....

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.... is the key to understanding the ambiguous portrayal of woman within his paintings, throw out his career. It was during the late 1850’s when was serving as a naval cadet in Rio de Janeiro, that he met a number of slave girls, had openly admitted in letters to his friends the extend to which he found their tropical beauty alluring. Yet, is was not until returned to France that he reveled the true extent of his relationships with these girls, and confessed to the fact that he had been using his time to relate to the girls in an adult way. The answer lies in the artists life long ill-health, it was in fact himself who first diagnosed although now ....