
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
By Nathalia BrodskaïaLength16h 1m
About this audiobook
Impressionism is the most famous artistic movement. But what appears today as a charming and exquisite landscape painting, was actually one of the first avant-garde movements whose members had decided to fight the values of traditional art. The impressionist outdoor paintings shocked the public by the technique used, but also by their apparent banality. As Monet, Sisley, Pissarro and many others sought to capture the ephemeral nature of light, the next generation would reject naturalism. Indeed, post-impressionists such as Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cézanne and Seurat favored the subjective rather than the objective and the eternal rather than the concrete. In doing so, they laid the formal foundations of 20th-century modern art. This book is a visual guide through the crucial moments in the history of art and the progression of the 19th-century to modernity.
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Table of contents
1Introduction
12Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)
2Preface
13Introduction to Post-Impressionism
3The Impressionists and Academic Painting
14The Post-Impressionist Period: Background and Ambience
4Precursors
15Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
5The First Impressionist Exhibition
16Neo-Impressionism
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6Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
17Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
7Claude Monet (1840-1926)
18Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
8Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
19Henri Rousseau (The Douanier Rousseau) (1844-1910)
9Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)
20Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
10Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
21The Nabis
11Edgar Degas (1834-1917)