Impressionism

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Impressionism was one of the most important breal<-throughs in the history of painting. The young Impressionists of the 1860s and 7Ps in France not only abandoned the conventional theories of academic painting, but opened the way to the future. In 1874 a group of experimental and virtually unknown artists, including Renoir, Monet, Pissarro and Sisley, held a highly unsuccessful extiibition of their revolutionary vvorks in Paris, defying the hidebound traditionalism of the official Salon. Yet within little more than a .decade, the originality of their approach to painting proved a vital challenge to all preconceptions of style, subject-rpatter, colour and technique. That challenge was to become the premise of modern art. Phoebe Pool has written a valuable survey which relates the Impressionists to both their predecessors and their heirs. She shows how they were influenced, and to some degree anticipated, by the less academic of the established artists such... Tovább

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About this book
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Impressionism was one of the most important breal<-throughs in the history of painting. The young Impressionists of the 1860s and 7Ps in France not only abandoned the conventional theories of academic painting, but opened the way to the future. In 1874 a group of experimental and virtually unknown artists, including Renoir, Monet, Pissarro and Sisley, held a highly unsuccessful extiibition of their revolutionary vvorks in Paris, defying the hidebound traditionalism of the official Salon. Yet within little more than a .decade, the originality of their approach to painting proved a vital challenge to all preconceptions of style, subject-rpatter, colour and technique. That challenge was to become the premise of modern art. Phoebe Pool has written a valuable survey which relates the Impressionists to both their predecessors and their heirs. She shows how they were influenced, and to some degree anticipated, by the less academic of the established artists such ás Delacroix, Courbet and the painters of the Barbizon school. Special attention is given to Manet and Degas who, though drawn to Impressionism and closely associated with individual impressionists, never became totally committed to the style. Though short-lived. Impressionism engendered the paintings of Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh, whose connection with the movement is also discussed.
'Deserves to be read by a wide public,' Denys Sutton, in The Financial Times.
'There is no concise account of the movement which covers the subject so admirably,' The Illustrated London News.
Phoebe Pool was born in London and read for a degree in modern history at Oxford. Latef she embarked on a course of study at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she specialized in nineteenth-century French painting. She now lectures at the University of Reading. Her interest inthe inter-relationship between the painters, writers and social background of a given period and country led her to study the milieu of Picasso in Barcelona and Paris, and in collaboration with Sir Anthony Bluntshe wroteP/'casso/i/jeformai/Ve Years. She has also published books on Degas and Constable.
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