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Impressionism - Hardcover

John Russell Taylor

 
9780863630132: Impressionism

Synopsis

Reviled by the Paris art establishment of their day, the masterworks of the Impressionists have become perhaps the most widely loved and admired paintings of the past 100 years. In their attempts to capture the fleeting moment and the ways in which objects reflect or absorb light, Manet, Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley and others created a new and brilliantly vivacious world on canvas, they also influenced the work of their friends, most notably Cezanne, Degas Van Gogh and Seurat. John Russell Taylor, Art Critic of The Times, describes the origins and central ideas of Impressionism and identifies some of the successors to a movement whose first exhibition in 1874 has justly been called the birthday of modern art.

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