Edouard Manet (1832-1883) once said that "a painter can say all he wants to with fruit or flowers or even clouds..." The exhibition, "Manet: The Still-Life Paintings," now at the Walters Art Museum in ...

Manet himself expressed his distaste for certain Impressionist principles, though he adopted them more and more as he aged. But, for my purposes here, I am less interested in the historical facts of ...

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.

A similar dynamic is at play in the series of portraits Édouard Manet painted of Berthe Morisot ... red lacquer handle of a ...