An artist can say everything with flowers, fruit, and clouds.

-Edouard Manet-

Manet wa has been universally regarded as the Father of Modernism. With Courbet he was among the first to take serious risks with the public whose favour he sought, the first to make alla prima painting the standard technique for oil painting and one of the first to take liberties with Renaissance perspective and to offer ‘pure painting’ as a source of aesthetic pleasure. He shared with Degas the establishment of modern urban life as acceptable material for high art.”

-Beatrice Farwell, the art historian-