And art is one of the methods invented by humans to record and rekindle it. Manet and Morisot were both key figures in what became the impressionist movement: Manet was the so-called father of ...

In other words, Manet still thought he could transform the art establishment from within. Morisot ignored his advice. This, it turned out, was the right decision. Eight impressionist exhibitions ...

When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers.

Max Liebermann was a German-Jewish painter best known as a leader of the Impressionist ... to Édouard Manet in its thick impasto and tonal palette, deftly rendering landscapes and figures with a ...