The impressionists

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PRAFRÇR WORI D OF ART PAP"=»ÇACKS
THE riPRESS'^NiG IS
\ ' ¦ -François Mathey '
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A hundred years ago, a group of young painters in search of new approaches and a fresh orientation banded together informally in France. They formed the nucleus of a movement—Impressionism— that was destined to set the world of painting ablaze with hitherto unknown ranges of color and light.
The problems and obstacles confronting the Impressionists, and the hostility they engendered among their contemporaries, can be understood only within the context of the era in which Impression- ; -' ism was conceived and developed. In this brilliant new book, François Mathey re-creates the atmosphere of nineteenth-century France—the artistic, social, and political climate in which these artists lived and worked. ,
The Impressionists is a fascinating biography of the ^ artistic movement that laid the foundations for all the trends and schools which today we call " modern art. "' The creative force of... Tovább

Fülszöveg

PRAFRÇR WORI D OF ART PAP"=»ÇACKS
THE riPRESS'^NiG IS
\ ' ¦ -François Mathey '
Í V ¦ -
A hundred years ago, a group of young painters in search of new approaches and a fresh orientation banded together informally in France. They formed the nucleus of a movement—Impressionism— that was destined to set the world of painting ablaze with hitherto unknown ranges of color and light.
The problems and obstacles confronting the Impressionists, and the hostility they engendered among their contemporaries, can be understood only within the context of the era in which Impression- ; -' ism was conceived and developed. In this brilliant new book, François Mathey re-creates the atmosphere of nineteenth-century France—the artistic, social, and political climate in which these artists lived and worked. ,
The Impressionists is a fascinating biography of the ^ artistic movement that laid the foundations for all the trends and schools which today we call " modern art. "' The creative force of Cézanne and Gauguin, of Van Gogh and Renoir, of Manet and Monet, of Pissarro and Degas—and of many more—is revealed in 172 superb color and black-and-white illustratiôns, offering the reader a tour through the great museums and private collections of Impressionist art. The author has supplemented his highly readable, informative text with capsule biographies of all the painters who participated in this movement—the giants as well as those of lesser fame—and the detailed captions accompanying the reproductions constitute in « themselves an important critical survey of Impressionism. The Author : François Mathey, a well-known French art cridc, is a curator at the Museum, of Decorative Arts in Paris.
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