“The modern moves swiftly,” he wrote, “and would act before the impression fades.” In his next portrayal of Berthe, Édouard elected to keep her out of the picture entirely. What Manet ...

Claude Monet was a contemporary of Manet and ground zero in the Impressionist Movement. It was his 1874 painting, Impression, Sunrise, that earned this style the pejorative label of Impressionism.

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.

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Manet is one of the main candidates for the title of the most important artist there has been. As the reluctant father of Impressionism, and the painter of Dejeuner sur l'herbe, he can probably be ...