What was Édouard Manet's motivation in creating large-scale, controversial works?
a. He was considered a flâneur, someone determined to shock a bourgeois audience.
b. He wanted to support his political views through art.
c. He wanted the Academy to take notice of his influential work.
d. He wanted to demonstrate the relationship between his subjects and nature.
Answer: a
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