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Impressionism
Refers to the movement that developed in Paris, France and rejected traditional academic teaching and focused on capturing the effects of outdoor light, leisure, and the city.
Basics to get you started
Impressionism, an introduction
How the Impressionists got their name
Looking east: how Japan inspired Monet, Van Gogh and other Western artists
What does “Impressionism” mean?
Impressionist pictorial space
Impressionist color
Impressionism as optical realism: Monet
Impressionism: painting modern life
Japonisme
Modern art and reality
Becoming modern in 19th-century Europe, an introduction
The painting of Paul Cézanne, an introduction
Landscape Painting in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Latin American artistic pilgrimages to Paris
Works of Art
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Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-81, oil on canvas, 130.2 x 175.6 cm (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)
