Features a detail from the painting by
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)
Palazzo da Mula, Venice, 1908
The impressionist movement began in 1874, when a group of artists calling themselves “Société Anonyme des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs” opened an exhibition independent of the official Salon. A disparaging critic, seizing on the title of one of the exhibited paintings, Claude Monet’s Impression, Sunrise, coined the term by which the artists would henceforth be known: the impressionists.
The impressionists were a diverse group in terms of background, temperament, and artistic style. Yet they were united in their desire to escape the perceived tyranny of the French Academy. They broke with accepted conventions of academic painting and adopted a freer approach to painting in which color and brushstroke took precedence over line and contour. Visual effects were prized over detail and subjective experience over objective reality.
A number of the impressionists—including Monet, Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro—embraced plein-air (open-air) painting, striving to capture the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere and transcribe their sensory experience directly and quickly. Others such as Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Edouard Manet preferred to work in the studio to create their own incisive depictions of modern life.
2.125 x 1.75 inches
Nickel plated steel hardware with split ring
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