IMPRESSIONISM A REVOLUTIONARY STYLE

IMPRESSIONISM: A RETINAL REALITY OF THE EPHEMERAL

THE LUMINOUS VIBRATIONS OF LIFE

OR THE TRIUMPH OF LA PEINTURE CLAIRE

Bea invites you to savor the pleasures of a lost world… a world where railway stations were magical temples of misty smoke; a world where speed was beginning its dizzying sensational act, where the popular culture of luncheons on the grass, cabaret life, beach picnics, was upstaging and right down discarding the foppish condescendence of a waning aristocracy; a world where ordinary people were at long last able to enjoy the pleasures of life.

The Impressionists did not paint the horrors of child labor, the horrors of the 1871 Franco-Prussian war, the horrors of prostitution. Their vision was solely focused on recreating the retinal sensations of light, the immediacy of movement, through freely brushed colors that took precedence over lines and contours. Impressionism helps us realize how little we truly understand happiness…

We shall examine closely the works of each individual painter, their similarities and their differences: Camille Pissarro, Edouard Manet, Eva Gonzalès, Berthe Morizot, Mary Cassatt, Alfred Sisley, Edgar Degas, Jean Frédéric Bazille, Armand Guillaumin, Gustave Caillebotte, Auguste Renoir, and Monet. Next week we shall look only at Monet, THE eye in movement.

Bea shall convey their crazed obsession in fixing on canvas those fleeting appearances which daunted painters before them, like light, water, crowds, rain, snow, smoke, all living within the space of movement.

JOIN BEA IN THIS ADVENTURE OF THE SENSES!