Details
24 X 30分
Professor Richard Brettell creates a vivid, "virtual" museum through which to appreciate the genius and enduring accomplishments of the Impressionists: the men and women who, in a few short decades, forever changed the art of painting. Who Were the Impressionists? They appeared in a period of upheaval. They saw the rebuilding of Paris, the rise of industrialism, the ruin of the Franco-Prussian war. They displayed their works?paintings that were startlingly, even shockingly, new?in a series of exhibitions from 1874 to 1886. And by the 1890s this "loose coalition" of artists who rebelled against the formality of the French Academy had created the most famous artistic movement in history. "They" were the Impressionists, and Professor Brettell is your expert curator and guide to a movement that created a new, intensely personal vision of the world. Whether the subject was a city street, a holiday beach, a harvest field, or a demoiselle's boudoir, they virtually invented the sensibility?urbane, contemporary, ever-changing?that today we take for granted as the "modern." Who were the Impressionists? What's the difference between a Manet and a Monet? How does a Pissarro landscape differ from one by C?anne? Were they really as personally scandalous as the Establishment alleged? And why is Impressionism, a 19th-century phenomenon, still so appealing in the 21st? What You Will Learn These artists documented life in the latter half of the 19th century and provided models of behavior, decorum, and urban beauty that persist to this day. This series of lectures will introduce you to the style, subject, and function of Impressionist painting by artists including Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, C?anne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and van Gogh. Separate analysis is given to the important Impressionist exhibitions and their contemporary critics like the writer Baudelaire. Among key topics covered are the public and private worlds of Parisian modernity, life in the countryside, the new leisure class, and the influential legacy of Impressionism.
