The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 100 - 101

Question 1

Manet: Pioneer of the Modern

Answer 1

• Edouard Manet (1832-83)
• often called the Father of Modern Art
• critics vilified his work
• he created “Olympia” in 1865 and was called the first modern nude

Question 2

Late Style

Answer 2

• work became indistinguishable from Impressionism

- he was a “whole new era of painting”