Tag: Impressionism
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Tate Britain … 400 years of women artists in Britain
I visited this exhibition today with my friend. It was really interesting and inspiring to see such an excellent representation of women artists. While i knew many of them it was intriguing to see them together and explore the gradual development of their art in the context of the various artistic zeitgeist through the centuries.…
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Musee D’Orsay … impressionists
This afternoon I visited an impressionist exhibition at the Museum. It was wonderful telling the story of the beginnings of Impressionism. In 1874 the artists who were excluded from the traditional Salon decided to mount their own … The Salon de Refusees. It was the first coming together of artists we now know as Impressionists.…
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A day at the Royal Academy … Impressionist drawings
A wonderful exhibition with some wonderful Degas pastels as well as Seurat,Van Gogh, Pissarro, Gaugin and Monet among many other great Impressionists. A real discovery for me was the Italian Zandomeneghi, a pupil of Degas and really accomplished. Some of the great women Impressionists were also well represented; Morisot, Gonzales and Cassatt. Its been a…
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After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art… National Gallery
I visited this exhibition on impulse having seen it advertised on recent trips to London. It was worth it. The exhibition examined the way in which Impressionism acted as a catalyst for various movements in Modern Art; Abstraction, Cubism, Post Impressionism, Fauvism, German Expressionism and many more. The exhibition contained works by so many artists…
Escape to myself 