Looking Back on Impressionism
67 views · Published 16 April 2014 · 47:22 · Indexed 12 November 2026
Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education
Ann Dumas, a leading independent scholar on Impressionism, talks about the Impressionists dialogue with the art of the past. The popular view of Impressionism is that it broke completely from the artistic traditions of previous centuries. In truth, the Impressionists copied the Old Masters and transformed their motifs and compositions into something completely new.
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