Impressionist Painting
- 80 pages
- 3 hours of reading
The author shows how novel ideas of the period about painting techniques, brushstrokes, canvas, light, subject matter, expression, realism, photography, the aim of painting and the role of the artist all laid the foundations of modern art. Over 100 full-color illustrations and complemented by tinted information panels providing specific reference to each major painting, its background and critical interpretation. Among the artists in this book are Boudin, Monet, Pisarro, manet, degas, Sisley, Cézanne, Morisot, Renoir, Gaughin, Van Gogh, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard and Bonnard.