The Final Flourish: The Impressionists—Painting and Revolution (Enhanced DVD)

The program opens up with depicting the last group effort of the Impressionists-their final exhibition which they arranged as a group. The program focuses on the penultimate years of the movement. Renowned art critic Waldemar Januszczak deeply analyses the work of Georges Seurat, emphasizing on his educational training at Beaux-Arts School in Paris and the major artists who inspired him like Piero della Francesca and Puvis de Chavannes.
In between Januszczak analyzes the amazing junction between art and optics and the different techniques by which the Impressionists utilized the new innovative inventions about vision and light in their work. The period of Van Gogh in Paris is also discussed specially the transformation from serious social commentary to the vibrant outlook he utilized on the verge of his leaving southern France. The film concludes by portraying Monet and his water lily cycle- a persisting soulful swan song created by the artist despite his eye problem.

(The Final Flourish: The Impressionists—Painting and Revolution ,Enhanced DVD, 60 minutes)
ISBN: 978-0-81608-947-5
Copy Right Date: 2011
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