It foreshadows a new art form on the horizon, a descendent of Impressionism: the cinema.
Dealer A, who specializes in impressionism, may be asked by a client to sell a cubist picture.
But compared to Impressionism's sensuous, light-filled canvases, Victorian art is stilted and dark.
More progressive artists absorb the looser brushwork of the French Barbizon and Impressionist painters, and often Impressionism's lighter palette.
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Lavery points to the technical achievements of the artists in fields such as realism and impressionism, despite living under a repressive regime.
Fortuny's father, the brilliant painter Mariano Fortuny y Marsal, was leading the way to Impressionism until his untimely death, in 1874, at age 36.
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Witness the auctions last week at Christie's and Sotheby's, where collectors scooped up paintings by academically trained artists who have been long overshadowed by Impressionism.
We're still in the early stages of planning, but, for example, we are scheduling 'Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, ' which will combine entertainment with history, for a summer audience.
Although Ensor had helped found the avant-garde Belgian coalition Les XX in 1883, his "Entry" was deemed too radical for exhibition five years later by his cohorts, whose aesthetic tended more toward French Impressionism.
They also contracted a touch of the Impressionism that had drifted down from France. (A good many Americans who went to Florence also made their way to Claude Monet's Giverny, where they acquired the dappling method at its source.) From the Yanks, the Italians picked up some tips on technique coming out of the newly robust art milieus of Boston, New York and Philadelphia.
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