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Le Suicidé
Le Suicidé is a small oil painting by Édouard Manet, completed between 1877 and 1881. The painting has been little studied within Manet's oeuvre, as if art historians have had difficulty finding a place for the work within the development of Manet's art.
The pictorial content of the painting is limited to a man who appears to have just shot himself—still holding a gun while slouched on a bed—and a few pieces of furniture. Manet has removed the trappings of earlier depictions of suicide,
by the writings of Theatre of Cruelty creator Antonin Artaud, particularly his essays "Van Gogh, le suicidé de la société" ("Van Gogh, the suicide by society") and "Héliogabale ou l'Anarchiste couronné" ("Heliogabalus, or the anarchist crowned"), Spinetta exorcised many of the demons of his past in this album. He simultaneously released a manifesto entitled "Rock: música dura, la suicidada por la sociedad" ("Rock: tough music, suicided by society"), a reference to