Impressionists
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Impressionists
69.99 €
The Impressionists not only revolutionized painting, they changed the way mankind looked at the world around them.
To their contemporaries they seemed to their contemporaries as innovators-crazy people who dared to declare that they would be able to capture a unique divine moment of existence, to paint light, to embody on the canvas of the movement of air. The changing, shimmering, fluttering, rain-washed, sunlit world of Impressionism forced Europe and then the whole world to take a new look at the present and the past of art. "A new knowledge is being formed, armed with all the experience of the active and infinitely curious artist. The science of art now learns from those who exemplify the living practice of art." Through the efforts of the Impressionists, Europeans rediscovered Velázquez, Poussin, Greek archaics, medieval sculpture, Japanese prints and Chinese painting. European culture said a definitive "no" to sluggishness and moved along a modern course: broad, open to new trends, experimentation and innovation.
To their contemporaries they seemed to their contemporaries as innovators-crazy people who dared to declare that they would be able to capture a unique divine moment of existence, to paint light, to embody on the canvas of the movement of air. The changing, shimmering, fluttering, rain-washed, sunlit world of Impressionism forced Europe and then the whole world to take a new look at the present and the past of art. "A new knowledge is being formed, armed with all the experience of the active and infinitely curious artist. The science of art now learns from those who exemplify the living practice of art." Through the efforts of the Impressionists, Europeans rediscovered Velázquez, Poussin, Greek archaics, medieval sculpture, Japanese prints and Chinese painting. European culture said a definitive "no" to sluggishness and moved along a modern course: broad, open to new trends, experimentation and innovation.
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