Resumen de Manet et Wagner en 1862
The controversy over Richard Wagner´s opera Tannhäuser may have inspired Manet to infuse certain stylistic elements into Music in the Tuileries, visually allying his work, wich would become a major keynote of Impressionism, with the progressive forecs of modernism. The influence of Wagner´s writings, the impact of his efforts to reform opera, and the critical reception surround-ing his presence in Paris stoked the dialogical interaction of the discourses of music, art and literature, altering the ways in which these art forms not only represented their times but also how they were received. Critics often complained that Wagner´s new sounds ended up being noise and not music. When Paul de Saint Victor invoked a similar comparison to characterize Manet´s painting, saying that his palette was a "charivari" that he made tones howl, and that the work "écorche les yeux comme la musique des foires fait saigner l´oreille" he tarred Manet´s painting with the same brush the critics had so often used to malign Wagner´s music as noise.
