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Impressionism's Beginnings |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Michael Gibson |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 1,980 Words, 12,012 Characters |
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The style known to us today as Impressionism was already fully fledged by 1869, but the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 forced its promoters to postpone the coming-out party for five years. Only in 1874, as the result of an exhibition organized in Nadar's Studio, did the world finally get the opportunity to discover the new aesthetic idiom that would in due course become the most enduringly popular art form for the next century and more.
Origins of Impressionism, an exhibition that opened in Paris and comes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on September 27, gives a splendid account of the movement's gestation between 1859 and 1869--the decade preceding the war. The show is fascinating for several reasons. Naturally, it is delightful to have the opportunity to see and compare nearly two hundred outstanding, significant works flown in from all parts of the world as they hang briefly side by side. But these works also reveal something that may appear singularly relevant to us in our present situation: The show opens with a section devoted to the 1859 Salon that might well remind us of the infused state of the arts in our own day.
According to the consensus of criti...
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...learly the new concern of the age and marked a break with all the art of the past, which generally sought to catch the unchanging essence of things rather than their shifting appearance through time.
The Origins of Impressionism opened at the Grand Palais in Paris earlier this year and is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from September 27, 1994, to January 8, 1995.
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