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Special looks and glances with Manet

HAMBURG - Manet is famous for a few icons that founded modern art, in particular Olympia and the Déjeuner sur l’herbe. Instead of bringing out those classics, this retrospective examines in which manner the painter, while creating a surprising relationship between painting and the spectator, transforms the latter into a voyeur. It is not necessarily a direct and brazen look, like in Nana, but rather a subtle game of side glances, like in The Lunch. At another time, Georges de La Tour had already used this talent very artistically.
• Manet. Painting the Gaze, at the Hambuger Kunsthalle, from 27 May to 4 September 2016.

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