Art-Paris Impressionists and Post-Impressionists
Impressionism: "Led by a core group of artists. Friends and colleagues, they developed their theories over cheap wine in Parisian cafés and in trips to the countryside."
The book starts with the meeting in Paris at the Café Guerbois, center of the artistic life and the so-called Impressionism in 1870. It was a thursday evening and some artists, were smoking and drinking strong coffee. They were Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro and many more. They were worried because, again, their paintings rejected by the Salon, the most important art exhibit in Paris. Born in 1667, this institution appeared pretty snob and exclusive and tried all its best for stopping the success of these artists.
Rejected from the annual exhibition in Paris these artists that evening tried to find a way for organizing an art exhibit, for let show to everyone their wonderful paintings and what they were doing; their philosophy of thinking regarding painting. A new movement was in fact born; these artists refused to staying closed in an apartment for painting per hours. They preferred to go outside, their favorite topic was nature mixed with the hard work of farmers, in the case of Van Gogh, or sophisticated meetings, as Renoir portrayed of parisienne's citizens. The first exhibition in 1874 in strong protest with the Salon, these artists wanted to remark the birth of a new art, the contemporary one. The art exhibit opened two weeks before the one of the Salon.
Not only: you will also discover what happened in the while at the Salon, and the creation of a museum dedicated to the Impressionists thanks to wise men in grade of looking forward.
Divided in sections, the first chapter will define the word Impressionism for then analyzing the biggest Impressionists with a good biography of each of them, their most most important works and salient, prominent facts of their existences. Another chapter will describe how the Impressionists broke from the Salon for then guiding the reader at the discovery of the various Museums where you can find Impressionists' works without forgetting a chapter about Paris Walking Tours, ending with North of Paris and Normandy.
Highly recommended to all that people in love for Impressionism because it's a fresh reading and a great touristic guide!!!
I thank Museyon Books for the copy of this book.
Anna Maria Polidori
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