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Manet - Still Life Clarity, Contour, urbanity and virtuous ability to handle paint-such are the qualities that first strike us in Manet’s art. Before we attempt to analyze the meaning of what’s within Edouard Manet’s work entitled still life, Grapes and figs, one must first identify, and note, the somewhat colorful events which occurred within the artist life, and note the way in which they must have led his work. Born in …

…members of society who had fallen prey to the hypocritical social injustices of contemporary society, Manet’s painting, although embracing the social questions which were particularly relevant to Nineteenth century society, is, in fact so successful in its provocation of audience response, that one could fairly identify that the self analytical essence of the piece, has is in no way been diluted by the passage of time, and still remains relevant some hundred years later.