Though partly influenced by Goya and Velàzquesz, Manet's work introduced a new pictorial language, and was often severely criticized by the artistic establishment. He strongly influenced the Impressionists, though he refused to exhibit with them. Monet and Renior owed a great deal to Manet's free, vigorous brush-strokes, his blond colors, his elimination of half tones, and his unity of compositions. Manet was in turn influenced by the Impressionists when he painted with Monet and Renior at Argenteuil in 1874. But even in his most 'Impressionist" period Manet was never primarily a painter of landscape or reflected light, he never abandoned local colors or black, and most of his works were executed in the studio.
