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Impressionists on paper : Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec / Royal Academy of Arts

Contributor(s): Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) [issuing body]Language: English Publisher: London : Royal Academy of Arts, 2023Description: 152 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmISBN: 9781912520978Subject(s): Impressionist artists -- Exhibitions | Impressionism (Art) -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 709.0344 IMP General note: Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at Royal Academy of Arts, London, 25 November 2023 - 10 March 2024.Summary: Best known for their superlative oils on canvas, Degas, Cezanne, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and numerous other Impressionists and Post-Impressionists also regularly used paper as a support for works in watercolour, gouache, pencil, tempera and that most elusive of media, pastel. Their practice transformed the status of these works from preparatory studies, to be left in the studio and not shown in public, to works of art in their own right. With insightful texts by acknowledged experts in the field, this sumptuous book brings together some 70 masterworks on paper by leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. Their bold innovations challenged traditional attitudes, radically transformed the future direction of art and ultimately paved the way for later movements such as Abstract Expressionism.
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709.0341 IRW Neoclassicism 709.0343 NOC Realism 709.0344 FAR Farm to table : art, food, and identity in the age of impressionism / 709.0344 IMP Impressionists on paper : Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec / 709.0349 DUN Art nouveau 709.0349 DUN Art nouveau 709.0349 HAS In the Nouveau style

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Best known for their superlative oils on canvas, Degas, Cezanne, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and numerous other Impressionists and Post-Impressionists also regularly used paper as a support for works in watercolour, gouache, pencil, tempera and that most elusive of media, pastel. Their practice transformed the status of these works from preparatory studies, to be left in the studio and not shown in public, to works of art in their own right. With insightful texts by acknowledged experts in the field, this sumptuous book brings together some 70 masterworks on paper by leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. Their bold innovations challenged traditional attitudes, radically transformed the future direction of art and ultimately paved the way for later movements such as Abstract Expressionism.

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