The art of the Impressionist Masters

 

"Impressionist masters from the French painting collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts is on view at CaixaForum in Barcelona. To begin with, it reconstructs the path that led to Impressionism, when a group of painters –Camille Corot, Jean-François Millet, Constant Troyon and Théodore Rousseau— decided to move to the wood of Barbizon, close to Fontainebleau, in order to be able to paint in the open air. Traditionally, the landscape had been the backcloth of mythological or religious scenes. The artists from the Barbizon school moved it into the foreground and established an intimate relationship, as if they wanted to merge it with nature.

The Impressionists quickly followed their steps. The early compositions by Claude Monet, Gustave Caillebotte or Alfred Sisley aspire to retain the impression of a moment during the day, magnificently and sumptuously, through the effects of light and colour."

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Impressionism in the Milwaukee Art Museum

"Organized in conjunction with the Albertina in Vienna, Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper is the first exhibition devoted exclusively to the significance of drawing to the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist avant-garde movements—and to the development of modern art. The exhibition makes its premiere in Milwaukee, presenting more than one hundred drawings, watercolors, and pastels by many of the greatest artists in the history of Western European art—Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. 


These artists created drawings independently of painting, as they sought to create an art that more accurately represented their times. In the process, the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists effectively elevated drawing in nineteenth-century France to a status equal with that of painting.


Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper is organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum in partnership with the Albertina in Vienna. The exhibition was co-curated in Milwaukee by Christopher Lloyd, guest curator, and Laurie Winters, director of exhibitions at the Museum."


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Arte y el Impresionismo

Pintura Impresionista

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El Impresionismo es un movimiento pictórico que surge en Francia a finales del S. XIX en contra de las fórmulas artísticas impuestas por la Academia Francesa de Bellas Artes, que fijaba los modelos a seguir y patrocinaba las exposiciones oficiales en el Salón parisino.

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Impresionantes Impresionistas

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Renoir painting unjustly taken before Holocaust

In 1956, steel magnate Newton Korhumel and his wife, Irene, bought a florid country landscape by French impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir at a New York gallery. The painting hung proudly in their Lake Forest home.


Now, there's a question as to whether the couple ever truly owned the painting.


Irene Korhumel died in December, nine years after her husband. The executor of their estate turned to Christie's auction house in Chicago to sell the painting, created by an artist whose work routinely fetches millions of dollars.


But any potential sale is on hold, awaiting a possible claim by the heirs of a German textile mogul who, like many other Jews in mid-20th century Europe, lost his art collection to the Nazi onslaught, said Olaf Ossmann, a Swiss lawyer who represents the mogul's heirs.

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Paul Gauguin en Taipei.

Durante su vida legendaria, Paul Gauguin abandonó todo para seguir su llamado interno y así reinventar la pintura en Europa y consolidar su reputación como un maestro moderno. Obedeciendo a esta convocatoria con una estética adelantada a su tiempo, pintó los colores vivos  que irradian una poética inagotable de calma melancólica.

Taiwán ha organizado la primera exposición en solitario de Paul Gauguin; Compuesta por más de cincuenta obras de más de diez museos, fundaciones y colecciones privadas de Europa, Estados Unidos y Japón, y de otras partes, incluye las pinturas al óleo, grabados, obras sobre papel, bronces y esculturas de madera.

Con la presentación de los distintos puntos de inflexión en el estilo de Gauguin en el transcurso de su vida, el papel de la exposición   es la revitalización de la cultura occidental con  tendencias primitivista, y su posición eclectica en la historia del arte occidental .(continua)

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