Colours Of Impressionism Masterpieces From The Musee D Orsay

One of the great innovations of the Impressionists was their radical use of colour: their application of strokes of complementary or contrasting hues captured the shifting effects of light and foregrounded the nature of vision. Using colour as the lens through which to magnify the movement’s intricacies, this catalogue sweeps us from Manet’s rich blacks, through green and blue landscapes of Monet and Cézanne, to the sensuous pinks of Renoir. Along this journey, scientific discoveries and emerging definitions of modernity are explored, illuminating the profound innovations of the Impressionists and the shifting preconceptions of their art.

The Musée d Orsay houses one of the largest collections of Impressionist paintings in the world. This book introduces 100 Impressionist masterpieces and traces the history of a movement that revolutionised the history of art. Beginning with the birth o

In this volume, examples of Post-Impressionism from one of the world's premier art museums provide an overview of innovations ushered in by the popular movement. Representing a pivotal moment in the history of European art, the Post-Impressionists created some of the most recognizable and stylistically inventive paintings of the modern era. Published to accompany a major exhibition, this book presents over one hundred celebrated paintings from the unparalleled collection of Paris's Musee d'Orsay. Focusing on the decades around 1900, this publication presents late Impressionist landmarks by Monet and Renoir; early modern masterpieces by Cezanne, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Van Gogh; and avant-garde canvases by the Nabis painters Denis, Bonnard, and Vuillard. The volume also provides a unique look at the Musee d'Orsay's outstanding collection of Pointillism, including works by artists such as Seurat and Signac. Together these works offer a fresh assessment of seismic transitions in the European art world at the turn of the twentieth century that ushered in the birth of modern painting and produced lasting treasures of its own.

Featuring works by some of the best-known post-impressionist artists, this book is published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia. Masterpieces includes multiple works by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat, Pierre Bonnard, Claude Monet, and Maurice Denis, among others.

This book offers the reader an insightful 'visit' to the world of Impressionism. It is illustrated with many of the most exciting Impressionist images from Paris's Musee d'Orsay. Reproductions of high quality are supplied with annotations made by qualified art historian. In this book you will learn a lot of interesting facts concerning the history and biography of outstanding artists - Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Frederic Bazille and other acknowledged masters.