The Impressionists

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THE IMPRESSIONISTS
Robert Katz and Celestine Dars
Over 350 color pictures
NO GROUP OF ARTISTS or period of art history has inspired as much fascination and admiration, or has been as celebrated as the Impressionist school which flourished, centred in France, from 1874 to 1886. THE IMPRESSIONISTS tells the story of these revolutionary painters and the dramatic times that shaped their vision.
Section One, A HISTORY OF IMPRESSIONISM, examines the artistic trends which led away from the classical schools of painting and the French landscape tradition in the early part of the nineteenth century to the Realist art of Courbet and on to the shocking debut of Manet in 1863.
Section Two, THE LIFE AND WORKS, considers the most important individuals in the history of Impressionism - including Pissarro, Manet, Renoir, Sisley, Bazille, Morisot and Cassatt - drawing out from their biographical details the passions that linked them together as a functioning group and that ultimately pulled... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE IMPRESSIONISTS
Robert Katz and Celestine Dars
Over 350 color pictures
NO GROUP OF ARTISTS or period of art history has inspired as much fascination and admiration, or has been as celebrated as the Impressionist school which flourished, centred in France, from 1874 to 1886. THE IMPRESSIONISTS tells the story of these revolutionary painters and the dramatic times that shaped their vision.
Section One, A HISTORY OF IMPRESSIONISM, examines the artistic trends which led away from the classical schools of painting and the French landscape tradition in the early part of the nineteenth century to the Realist art of Courbet and on to the shocking debut of Manet in 1863.
Section Two, THE LIFE AND WORKS, considers the most important individuals in the history of Impressionism - including Pissarro, Manet, Renoir, Sisley, Bazille, Morisot and Cassatt - drawing out from their biographical details the passions that linked them together as a functioning group and that ultimately pulled them apart.
This authoritative and artistic approach to the history of the men and women who made up the Impressionists and to the legacy they forged - from Manet's Olympia to Renoir's The Path in the Grass - at last provides a greater understanding of the movement and explains why Impressionism continues to be the most popular of artistic styles. The expert contextual analysis is both accessible and fascinating, and is augmented by over 350 illustrations, including the popular, immediately recognizable images central to the movement, and many carefully researched, rare paintings, seldom seen in print before. Vissza