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.

Manet’s later works, such as the world-famous Bar at the Folies-Bergère ... In some ways, Manet’s early work is the conscious antithesis of Impressionism. He initially rejected the idea that art ...

Max Liebermann was a German-Jewish painter best known as a leader of the Impressionist ... Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. He died on February 8, 1935 in Berlin ...