Nathalia Brodskaia - Impressionism

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Never before have paintings appeared to me to possess such an overwhelming dignity.

One can almost hear the inner voices of the earth and sense the trees burgeoning. Emile Zola, on Camille Pissarro Table of contents Foreword Contents The Impressionists and the classical school of Art The predecessors The Impressionists Exhibition Important dates: Index Ladies in the Garden Claude Monet, 1866 Oil on canvas Muse dOrsay, Paris

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The Bellelli Family Edgar Degas, 1858-67 Oil on canvas, 200 x 250 cm Muse dOrsay, Paris The paintings name, The View of Le Havre, did not really correspond to the painting one cannot see Le Havre in it at all. Call it Impression, Monet told Renoir, who was compiling the catalogue, and this was the beginning of the history of Impressionism. Young Spartan Girls Challenging the Boys Edgar Degas, ca. 1860 Pencil on paper, 22.9 x 36 cm Muse dOrsay, Paris On 25 April, 1874 the critic Louis Leroy published a satirical piece in the Charivari newspaper, which narrated his visit to the exhibition. The surface of the work by Camille Pissarro depicting a ploughed field appeared to him to be scraped dried paint from the palette thrown onto a dirty canvas. 1863 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 66.5 cm Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon He was terrified by Claude Monets Paris scene entitled Boulevard des Capucines. 1863 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 66.5 cm Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon He was terrified by Claude Monets Paris scene entitled Boulevard des Capucines.

He stopped in front of the landscape from Le Havre painted by Monet and asked what the painting meant. Impression, Sunrise. Impression! the journalist snorted. Bunch of Peonies Edouard Manet, 1864 Oil on canvas, 93 x 70 cm Muse dOrsay, Paris Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished! (Charivari, 25 April, 1874). Leroy named his article, The Exhibition of the Impressionists. With a truly French linguistic agility, he coined a new word from the title of the painting. Within a year, the name Impressionism was an accepted term the art itself was not.

Garden of the Princess Claude Monet, 1867 Oil on canvas, 91 x 62 cm Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio The term turned out to be so accurate that it was destined to stay forever in the history of art. The group of the future Impressionists had been formed in the early 1860s; and the term Impressionism came to mean a trend not only in French art, but in fact, it also was a new stage of the development of European art. It marked the end of the classical period that began in the Renaissance. The Towing of a Boat in Honfleur Claude Monet, 1864 Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 82.1 cm Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York

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