Painting Goals To paint representationally , seeing all the nuances of color locally and optically To compose the pictorial realm into an activated expression of the still life material To experiment with warm and cool temperatures of color to push and pull (advance and recede) spatial areas into different realms To experiment with complimentary pairing; vibrating color and tertiaries To experiment with impasto paint and variety of application techniques Édouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris) He was one of the first 19th c. painters to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism Realism > An artistic movement that emerged in France in 1840's around the same time as the 1848 Revolution. Realists rejected Romanticism, which was prevalent in French literature and painting earlier. Revolution of 1848 > Springtime of the Peoples, or the Year of Revolution was a series of pol...