Painting the People
Description
Although often associated with landscape painting, the Impressionists were determined to portray people with the same energy and immediacy they applied to fields, forests, and architecture. Contemporaries of Monet and Renoir, while perhaps less widely known than those two artists, were superb practitioners of this socially minded, humanist aspect of Impressionism. Looking closely at the career of Edgar Degas, British critic Waldemar Januszczak shows how the artist preoccupied with ballet dancers was also a challenger of deep-rooted traditions and a passionate recorder of 19th-century life. Januszczak likewise explores the unusual viewpoints and dramatic perspectives of Gustave Caillebotte's paintings from the Place de L'Europe and the rebellious and revolutionary art of Berthe Morisot, Marie Bracquemond, and Mary Cassatt - three female artists who embraced the progressive movement of Impressionism, although history has not given their achievements proper recognition.
Runtime
60 min
Series
Subjects
- Impressionism (Art) (23)
- Art criticism (74)
- Portrait painting (13)
- Figure painting (3)
- Visual literacy (198)
- Visual communication (69)
- Modernism (Art) (159)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2014], c2011
Database
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