This menu is powered by Agum Network Click above to search this site or the Internet. M anet was a member of an aristocratic family, and his father, a government official, only reluctantly countenanced his son's avowed intention of becoming a painter. M anet's thoroughly unconventional treatment of traditional subjects represents a turning point in modern painting. Even more than the proponents of realism, led by Gustave Courbet, Manet devalued the importance of what was painted in favor of stressing the process by which a painting was created. His later works ranged in subject matter from beach and outdoor subjects to city scenes, all of which he rendered with increasingly free brushstrokes and bolder use of color and light.
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