'Impressionists and Modern Masters' showcases major painters associated with the artistic movements occurring between 1860 and 1950, a period in art history characterized by an explosion of artistic innovation. The selection begins with the immediate
When: Saturday, Dec. 23, 2006, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Louisiana Art & Science Museum, 100 South River Road, Baton Rouge
Cost: Not available
Age limit: All ages
Categories: Museum, Painting, Works on Paper
Description: 'Impressionists and Modern Masters' showcases major painters associated with the artistic movements occurring between 1860 and 1950, a period in art history characterized by an explosion of artistic innovation. The selection begins with the immediate forerunners of impressionism, the French painters of the Barbizon School, who made sketches outdoors and then incorporated them into romantic landscape scenes, and the realists who strived to present a more accurate picture of nature. Representing impressionism, surely the most popular of all modern movements, are works by Monet, who is sometimes called the father of impressionism, and by Cassatt, Degas, Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley, among others. Although the exhibition features many different styles, materials and approaches to art -- impressionism, postimpressionism, cubism, symbolism, surrealism, the Ashcan School, precisionism, abstract expressionism -- together they present a deliberate disassociation from the traditional forms of expression. In art history, this shared attitude is called modernism.
Event posted Sept. 7, 2006
Last updated Aug. 29, 2007
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