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"Tells the story of the first truly modern artistic movement, focusing on five of its most important practitioners, Renoir, Monet, Degas, Pissarro, and Morisot. Their determination to remain true to their convictions--and the price they paid as a result--is vividly captured in their own words, taken from letters and diaries, while the world's foremost authorities offer fascinating insights into their lives and work"--Container

"The day came when the Impressionists seem to have had the last word, in and out of doors, in town and country alike. But painting had not come to a halt. Even then, the Post-Impressionists were all set to take it a stage further"--Container.

This program studies Pierre-Auguste Renoir's charming composition The Moulin de la Galette, a marvelous interweaving of sunlight and soft, hazy blue-and a genial proclamation of the Impressionist school. The nuanced color, the subtly overlapping brushstrokes, the artful blurring of the figures, and other technical elements are considered.

Publisher description: Neo-impressionism, the new impressionism, was the name coined to describe the paintings of Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, and the Pissarros shown in the last exhibition held by the impressionists, in 1886. Led by the cultivated and intellectual Seurat, these painters sought a new way to create the shimmering light of the impressionists. They declared that through analysing color scientifically and laying on paint systematically,...

A survey of works by French artists of the Impressionist movement focuses on Pissarro, Sisley, Manet, Morisot, Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec.

"Impressionism" captures all the fervor of the revolutionary painters as they tumbled the bastion of academicisim. The Text explores the social, cultural, and political background of France, and examines the importance of the scientific and engineering achievements of the time. It illustrates with a unique assemblage of photographs the protagonists -- and not only the artists but also political and other figures -- of the events described. Most significantly,...