Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
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Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
29.99 €
It's the winter of 1870. Paris is surrounded by enemy armies, soon to be engulfed in the flames of civil war. People are dying of typhus and starvation in the streets, and the only means of communication with the outside world are balloons and pigeon post...
This media outlet portrays the era through the eyes of artists who refused to give up, both in life and in art. In besieged Paris, Manet, Morisot, and Degas continued painting, Renoir and Bazille fought, and Monet and Pissarro fled. But upon their return, they all keenly felt the fragility of existence—and transferred it to their art. The trauma of the "Terrible Year" forced artists to abandon heroic pathos and turn their gaze to light, air, and the fleeting beauty of everyday life.
At the center of the narrative is the love and friendship between Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, the first female Impressionist. Smi restores her place at the origins of the movement, tracing her complex dialogue with Manet and their mutual influence.
"Paris in Ruins" is a chronicle of Impressionism, a poignant story of how the siege and chaos transformed art and how genius is born from catastrophe. The underbelly of great art. Blood on the barricades. This is a text about the death of the old world. And how from its ashes a new beauty is born—free, daring, immortal.
This media outlet portrays the era through the eyes of artists who refused to give up, both in life and in art. In besieged Paris, Manet, Morisot, and Degas continued painting, Renoir and Bazille fought, and Monet and Pissarro fled. But upon their return, they all keenly felt the fragility of existence—and transferred it to their art. The trauma of the "Terrible Year" forced artists to abandon heroic pathos and turn their gaze to light, air, and the fleeting beauty of everyday life.
At the center of the narrative is the love and friendship between Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, the first female Impressionist. Smi restores her place at the origins of the movement, tracing her complex dialogue with Manet and their mutual influence.
"Paris in Ruins" is a chronicle of Impressionism, a poignant story of how the siege and chaos transformed art and how genius is born from catastrophe. The underbelly of great art. Blood on the barricades. This is a text about the death of the old world. And how from its ashes a new beauty is born—free, daring, immortal.
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