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Realists twisted meeting on its head to give heroic quality to everyday subjects. Manet shocked the public with his images of current life. Impressionists tried to detain brief effects of light and impression.

Painting in the initial half of the nineteenth century was dominated by Ingres and Delacroix, the first ongoing in the neoclassical custom in his emphasis on linear clarity and the second championing the communicative, romantic use of color as different to line. Both considerably partial a new generation of painters who sought to communicate their own personal reply to the political turmoil of their time.

For two hundred years, the conservatory, the School of Fine Arts, and the Salon, the representative exhibition, had fostered the French general artistic tradition. But by the center of the nineteenth century the intellectual system had deteriorate.