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https://gulbenkian.pt/biblioteca-arte/
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Manet
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Bolas_de_sab%C3%A3o_(Manet)

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We think that we did good overall. we managed the time well and did the padlet in time.

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Afonso Ferreira nº1;
Bruna Mendes  nº 5;
Inês Anahory nº 15.

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We were in spring and the afternoon was pleasant.

At this time of the year, during Easter holidays, I always enjoyed spending a few days at my grandparents' farm, away from the noise of the city.

This afternoon I felt something special: I felt strange, a little sad and lonely.

My grandmother had invited three of her best friends to have tea, outside in the garden, under the shade of the pine tree she loved so much.

I preferred to stay with my grandfather in the living-room instead. My grandmother prepared my favorite snack, left it on the table and went to meet her friends.

My grandfather was a little tired and loved to take a nap: in five minutes he fell asleep!

I decided to go outside and share what was left of my snack with Bobby and Sergeant, the farm dogs.

After a while I decided to wake my grandfather up and invite him to a game of cards. I had no luck: he just wanted to rest.

What should I do? I soon remembered the attic, one of my favorite places in the house, where I used to look for old objects, abandoned toys, and especially my grandmother’s tin box collection …

This time I discovered, inside a tin box, some drinking straws. Those straws were not strange to me! Ah, yes, the ice teas that my grandfather and I used to drink whenever we went to the popular fair, in the village.

They gave me an idea: I was going to spend the rest of the afternoon making soap bubbles with those straws.

And so I did. I am always surprised to see them fly for a few seconds, to see the reflections of the garden in each ball, for a moment.

When my grandfather finally woke up and went out into the garden, he immediately recognized the straws. He told me that it was he who had kept them as souvenirs.

So we sat by the wall, and spent the rest of the afternoon together, blowing soap bubbles and remembering the funny moments we had spent at the popular fair.

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Manet in 1861 had his first painting exposed in the Paris Salon: The Spanish Singer.
His main works were: Lunch in the grass or Lunch in the Field, Olympia, The Balcony, The Toilet of the Peach and The Execution of Maximilian.
His last work was called A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, which was shown at the Salon, in 1882. Prior to that year, he received a special award from the French Government, which was the Légion d'honneur. It was one of the highest form of recognition that he has received throughout his life.

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He used a young man as a model, according to one of them, Léon - Édouard Koella, stepchild of Manet, and son of his painting student and his music teacher.
According to others, the model was a 15-year-old named Alexander, from a very poor family who served Manet as a servant.
Nor can we exclude the hypothesis that the painting could constitute a reflection of the author on the perenniality of art.

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The painting "The Balls of Soap" has the theme of painting, the vanitas, that is, still life, symbolized by soap bubbles.
It is thought that the picture may constitute a reflection of the author on the eternity of art.
The frame has a free and direct style, with sharp differences between light and dark colors.
The work was acquired by Calouste Gulbenkian, through André Weil, in New York, in November 1943.

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Aspects such as the dark background, simplicity of forms and the sobriety of composition seem to evoke, however, a work with the same title by the eighteenth-century painter Jean-Siméon Chardin.
It is a harmonious composition in the frame that is highlighted by the black background without offering much contrast due to the colors used.
The style is realistic, tending towards the modern as it is a classic figurative theme almost impressionistic.

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Realism in the arts is the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic, and with supernatural elements.

The realism art movement started in France in the 1850s, after the 1848 Revolution.

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Édouard Manet was born in Paris on January 23, 1832 and died in Paris, April 30, 1883. He was a painter and artist of great plot and one of the most important of the nineteenth century art. Although many of his works have strong characteristics of Realism and he influenced certain precursors of Impressionism.