people felt the same about manet's old musician. they just weren't ady to accept manet's realism. they didn't want to see shabby people like these. they were used to sleek pictures of heroes from history or mythology. artists painted that way, or else, in paris. it was more important to manet to paint what he saw around him, even though people ridiculed him. his conviction that art and artists should be free makes him a crucial figure in modern art. manet said something interesting long ago. "people living 100 years from now "will be happy. "their vision will be "so much more highly developed than ours. they will see so much more clearly." how good a prophet was he? lavender mist. jackson pollock painted it in new york in 1950. he was a legend by the time he died just a few years later in an automobile accident. some of you still may not be sure what to make of it. that's understandable. it is totally abstract. there is not one form in it we can recognize. pollock was as controversial as manet when he began to paint this way, but it didn't take as long for people to realize how go