Modern Art 109 From mid-19 th century to mid-20 th century (left) Édouard Manet (French Realist painter, ‘father’ of the avant-garde), photograph by Nadar,
Modernism: The Crystal Palace and Early Photography.
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art, of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.... Charles Baudelaire.
