. "Everyday subjects depicted in realistic new styles appealed to a rising middle class audience with little taste for the antique. ?? Manet: Between the Salon and the Avant-Garde illustrates ???douard Manet??s rejection of the overly literary and allegorical flavor of the Salon in favor of a more direct and unadorned representation of ??the ordinary?? in everyday life, as depicted in such works as T" . . .