From Monet to Van Gogh: A History of Impressionism

From Monet to Van Gogh: A History of Impressionism

From Monet to Van Gogh: A History of Impressionism

With Professor Richard Brettell as your expert curator and guide, this course creates a vivid "virtual" museum through which to appreciate the genius and enduring accomplishments of the men and women who, in a few short decades, forever changed the art of painting. Enjoy the style, subject, and function of Impressionist painting by artists such as Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Van Gogh. Separate analysis is given to the important Impressionist exhibitions and their contemporary critics like the writer Baudelaire.

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