Edouard Manet – Controversial and Independent Author
Édouard Manet’s paintings The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l’herbe) and Olympia were among the artworks refused to be presented at great exhibition in 1863, which influenced the whole generation of French artists of the time and made crucial point in the conceptual development of Impressionism. The famous French paintings stayed controversial to these days. His work set the new paradigm within the institutional framework of Paris Salon and introduced the new French painting.
Featured images: Édouard Manet – Olympia, 1863.
