It didn't fit the cultural expectations of it's time. The job people thought art should do was different from what the impressionists were interested in pursuing. read more
Rejected by the Salon (and its leash critics and journalists) at first, because art dealers had stocks of conventional art to sell. Once Impressionists proved themselves as being able to sell they were accepted. read more
Édouard Manet was a French painter and a prominent figure in the mid-nineteenth-century Realist movement of French art. Manet's paintings are considered among the first works of art in the modern era, due to his rough painting style and absence of idealism in his figures. read more