• tradition of Ingres (antique rhythms, long lines, sensuality) now GONE!
• "Queen of the Faculties" : the IMAGINATION
• painting epicness of common life
• flaneur: Baudellaire's ideal representation of a leisurely city man, dandy, his profession and passion is to be one with teh crowd but still have a distance to reflect upon common life and create art

• Daumier Rue Transnonain
• 1834
• sense of being RIGHT there in the scene
• about police brutality (socialist)

• Manet Concert in the Tuileries Garden
• 1860
• exalted by electricity of crowds (flanuer) and spontaneity of everyday life
• unstructured, short, quick facture

• Manet The Fifer
• 1866
• sense of applique (like Courbet), ungrounded figure
• no phsychological impact

• Manet Déjeuner sur l'herbei
• 1863
• explicitly refers back to antiquity but in an aggressively modern way
• seen as vulgar because modern scene with a nude woman amongst elegantly clothed men

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• Manet Olympia
• 1863
• evoked paintings of the past but was sartorially coded as her being a lowly prostitute
• no slow curves or sensuality
• aggressively simplifed face and body
• subverts hierarch of objects (flowers draw more attention than the woman)

• Manet A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
• 1881
• popular entertainment became fantasy of modern life
• free facture captures scintillating light
• aim was to liken impressionism art to monumental traditional art