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Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, Frédéric Bazille, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, etc.
Renoir P.-Auguste
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Lebasque Henri
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Manet Edouard
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Boudin Eugène
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Gauguin Paul
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In the early 1860's, a group of young painters gathered around Monet. They felt academic art, as taught at the Beaux-Arts, had become outmoded. Instead, they started painting outside in the open, from nature, on an easel. They attempted to grasp the manifestations of fugitive moods and lights. They studied the light and its special effects, and they recorded the visual sensations they received in an instant.
The response to their works was one of general hostility. Critics dubbed them barbouilleurs, daubers of paint, and they soon were banned from the official Salons. Thus they were reduced to showing their work in the private, smaller salons, to meeting at the Café Guerbois to exchange ideas, they were also reduced to... utter poverty. In 1874, they were finally able to hold a genuine exhibit in the studio of photographer Felix Nadar. Between then and 1886, there were to be seven subsequent shows.
These French artists actually opened the way for many foreign artists to freely express their esthetic sensibilities, and their movement rapidly grew from its modest beginnings into a truly international one. Impressionism stands as a high point in the history of landscape art, especially French landscape painting.The effort to express new sensations in color encouraged artists to travel to foreign places looking for movement, new scenery and modernity.
Impressionist art depicts a peaceful world, the world of the rising bourgeoisie unconcerned about the social, economic, and political difficulties of the times.
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Others movements :
ITALIAN NOVECENTO -
RAYONNISM -
NEW FIGURATION -
Index chosen on the movements, important currents and events in the XX 2nd century art
I wanted to give here, with 46 various short introductions, some general elements on the movements or currents of art, groups or exhibitions, which concern the artists whose works are presented in gallery or were it recently. The table, above, will make it possible to visually locate the periods or dates in time.
Each entry is followed of a list of the principal artists belonging to the movement or current. It may be that there is only one simple relationship between such or such artist and the movement in which in theory one locates it (Click on the names in blue to reveal work or works currently in stock).
It will be understood, some movements are represented much than of others in my gallery. The same artist will be often found in several movements (as each one knows it, it was thus).
Although these some introductions, briefly developed, are not addressed to the specialists, they will forgive me the few lapses of memory or choices which would lend to discussion. I hope that these tiny introductions will be however useful to some of you. Michelle Champetier
