Online Gallery and Virtual Tour
The Reworking Manet exhibition showcased a selection of outstanding works made by students aged 14 to 18 from across the UK. Students created responses to É»å´Ç³Ü²¹°ù»å Manet’s famous painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882) in the Courtauld Gallery. These reworkings explore a wealth of themes drawn from the painting and seek to raise important issues in our everyday lives.
Reworking Manet exhibition took place in The Project Space at the Courtauld Gallery between 18 Oct 2023 – 18 Feb 2024.
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The learning team are still running workshops (in-school or at the Courtauld Gallery) based on the Reworking Manet Exhibition.
If you would like to book a Reworking Manet workshop for your students, please e-mail: learning@courtauld.ac.uk
The Brief
É»å´Ç³Ü²¹°ù»å Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882) is considered his best work because it pushes at the boundaries of art and portraiture in many different ways, inviting the viewer to consider some powerful questions about Paris social life at the time and we asked students to the same in 2023.
We were really interested to see and hear your ideas about how this work connects with our current social lives and values. The brief asked artist, writer, performer, designer, musician or historian to research, interrogate and create a personal response to the painting in any media. Students were given the option to work collaboratively, or independently to create a response.
By exploring aspects of the painting, from its materials and techniques, historical context and hidden meanings, Reworking Manet looked to draw out contemporary parallels and respond creatively to what they discovered.
