The Private Lives of the Impressionists

The Private Lives of the Impressionists
Title The Private Lives of the Impressionists PDF eBook
Author Sue Roe
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 370
Release 2008-12-13
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0061978965

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The New York Times–bestselling biography of Manet, Cezanne, Degas, and others—a “revealing group portrait . . . lively, required reading” (People). Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, their paintings are now revered around the world. Their dazzling works are familiar to even the most casual art lovers—but how well do we know the Impressionists as people? The first book to offer an intimate and lively biography of the world’s most popular group of artists, including Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Morisot, and Cassatt. Sue Roe’s Private Lives of the Impressionists, follows an extraordinary group of artists into their Paris studios, down the rural lanes of Montmartre, and into the rowdy riverside bars of a city undergoing monumental change. Vivid and deeply researched, it casts a brilliant light on this unparalleled society of genius colleagues who lived and worked together for twenty years—and transformed the art world with their breathtaking depictions of ordinary life.

Growing Up with the Impressionists

Growing Up with the Impressionists
Title Growing Up with the Impressionists PDF eBook
Author Julie Manet
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 258
Release 2017-08-24
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1786721929

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Julie Manet, the niece of Edouard Manet and the daughter of the most famous female Impressionist artist, Berthe Morisot, was born in Paris on 14 November 1878 into a wealthy and cultured milieu at the height of the Impressionist era. Many young girls still confide their inner thoughts to diaries and it is hardly surprising that, with her mother giving all her encouragement, Julie would prove to be no exception to the rule. At the age of ten, Julie began writing her `memoirs' but it wasn't until August 1893, at fourteen, that Julie began her diary in earnest: no neat leather-bound volume with lock and key but just untidy notes scribbled in old exercise books, often in pencil, the presentation as spontaneous as its contents. Her extraordinary diary - newly translated here by an expert on Impressionism - reveals a vivid depiction of a vital period in France's cultural history seen through the youthful and precocious eyes of the youngest member of what was surely the most prominent artistic family of the time.

Impressionism

Impressionism
Title Impressionism PDF eBook
Author Robert L. Herbert
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 348
Release 1988-01-01
Genre Art
ISBN 0300050836

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Examines the use of cafes, opera houses, dance halls, theaters, racetracks, and the seaside in impressionist French paintings

In Montmartre

In Montmartre
Title In Montmartre PDF eBook
Author Sue Roe
Publisher Penguin Books
Pages 386
Release 2016-04-19
Genre Art
ISBN 0143108123

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Previously published: London: Fig Tree, [2014].

Berthe Morisot

Berthe Morisot
Title Berthe Morisot PDF eBook
Author Margaret Shennan
Publisher Sutton Publishing
Pages 0
Release 2000
Genre Impressionism (Art)
ISBN 9780750923392

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On life and works of Berthe Morisot

Impressionist Quartet

Impressionist Quartet
Title Impressionist Quartet PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd
Pages 343
Release 2016-04-01
Genre Art
ISBN 1904915515

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In this book, Jeffrey Meyers follows the lives of four Impressionist painters whose rebellious work was scorned by the critics and derided by their contemporaries. The French art establishment dismissed them altogether and at the time their sold for very little. Impressionist Quartet describes the relationships between these artists and how they struggle emotionally and intellectually to create a new way of seeing and representing the world.

In the Gardens of Impressionism

In the Gardens of Impressionism
Title In the Gardens of Impressionism PDF eBook
Author Clare A. P. Willsdon
Publisher
Pages 296
Release 2004
Genre Art
ISBN

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From Manet's earliest depictions of the Tuileries Gardens in Paris to Monet's late waterlilies painted at Giverny, the Impressionists had an ongoing love affair with gardens. As places of rest, relaxation, and beauty, gardens were the Impressionist subject par excellence. This beautifully illustrated volume is the first consideration of this beloved theme in the Impressionists' work. Here the artists' fascination with gardens, parks, and flowers is explored in the context of the contemporary craze for horticulture and the changing political and cultural landscape in France. Drawing on archival sources such as horticultural journals as well as literature, poetry, and correspondence, the book describes how gardens, simultaneously modern and imbued with nostalgia, were central to the Impressionists' discovery of their distinctive plein-air (out-of-doors) style. At the same time, by bringing to life the 19th-century tradition of ?oral symbolism and exploring how it infiltrated the work of key Impressionists, the book gives familiar works radical new interpretations. This vital contribution to our understanding of the Impressionist world is sure to delight art and gardening enthusiasts alike.