Edouard Manet: Symphony in off-white
Manet transformed French art, clearing the way for Impressionism – his most famous paintings never fail, and still surprise Those who attack works of art are not, in one sense, wrong. You don’t assault something you are indifferent to, or something that doesn’t threaten you; iconoclasts rarely smash images out of apathy. Take the man who raised his walking-stick against Manet’s Music in the …
