Édouard Manet was not immune to bad press. In 1864, a year on from scandalizing Parisian mores with his vision of bourgeoisie vice in Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (1863), his follow-up Salon entry was ...

When French artist Édouard Manet completed his renowned painting Olympia in 1863, it marked a significant turning point in the history of art.

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.

To Manet's left, at the centre of the composition, stands Bazille, apparently taking a break from his painting -- he is still holding brushes and a palette -- to listen to Manet, who is nine years ...

Michaël Borremans is a contemporary Belgian artist whose photo-based paintings are characterized by their unsettlingly surreal imagery. His work has drawn comparisons to both Edouard Manet due to the ...

But it is no less real for that. And art is one of the methods invented by humans to record and rekindle it. Manet and ...

Liebermann’s work is very close in style to Édouard Manet in its thick impasto and tonal palette, deftly rendering landscapes and figures with a practiced hand that demonstrated the artist’s strong ...