Boating at Argenteuil

One of the earliest artist of the movement of Modern Realism was Edouard Manet, French artist who adopted the philopsphy of Baudelaire's and used it in his paintings. Boating at Argenteuil, done by Manet with the idea to shows the society of modern life. Painted in the 1870s, Manet painted a well dressed woman with a man who is dress like an ordinary person is talking with a woman in a place for rich people. Manet's goal was to show a connection of how people should face the reality, that is the beginnning of a mixed society between the rich and poor.

In the modern society, especially in the US, people can work for the whole year and will have money to spend their vacation anywhere they want. This is the connection between the society back then and the modern society. Before the poor were not allowed to be with the well off people and step into wealthy places. Manet had shows a new society in this painting and this represents Baudelaire's philosophy really well.