The public was allowed to compose their own judgments. Some of the public considered Luncheon on the Grass as “vulgar”, “immodest,” and “unartistic” however, Manet became one of the first and most important innovators to emerge in the public exhibition scene in Paris.1 Manet would hold meetings with Claude Monet and other “independent-minded, avant-garde artists to forge the principles of their new artistic styles.”1 Manet was introducing impressionism and influencing fellow artists like Claude Monet.
Claude Monet was born to a grocer and singer in Paris in 1840. Monet entered Le Havre, a secondary school of arts, at the age of eleven. He was locally known for his charcoal caricatures that could be purchased for ten to twenty francs. Monet would later take drawing lessons on the Normandy beaches from Eugène Boudin. Boudin taught Monet how to use oil paints and the importance on en plein air techniques.4 Monet traveled to Paris and watched painters that copied from old masters, but Monet took a different approach. He would take his supplies and sit by a window and paint what he