Impression  -  Richard R. Brettell

painting quickly in France, 1860-1890

KORTE INHOUD

The "point" of Impressionist art was to capture the fleeting moment, the transient effect of a certain place, person or time. Impressionist artists worked on site with speed and directness, hoping to distinguish their works with a new freshness, immediacy, and truthfulness. Yet the paintings they exhibited were in fact almost always completed in the studio later. This beautifully illustrated book investigates for the first time works that might truly be called Impressions--paintings that appear to be rapid ...
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2000 Uitgever: Yale University Press 240 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0300084471 ISBN-13: 9780300084474