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Was Impressionism the ancestor of the great rubbish of contemporary art?

2024-04-06T05:15:23.082Z

Highlights: Was Impressionism the ancestor of the great rubbish of contemporary art? The disapproval which surrounded the beginnings of the Impressionists has taken on the value of a myth. Celebrated and subsidized, those who cause scandal today are in reality the new firefighters. Discover in this issue the artistic epic of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Berthe Morisot, Pissaro, Sisley, Cézanne… and this gust of new wind that was Impressionist.


The disapproval which surrounded the beginnings of the Impressionists has taken on the value of a myth: any misunderstood artist quickly claims to be part of the illustrious precedent. Celebrated and subsidized, those who cause scandal today are in reality the new firefighters.


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Paris 1874, Rising Sun Impressionism. Discover in this issue

the artistic epic of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Berthe Morisot, Pissaro, Sisley, Cézanne… and this gust of new wind that was Impressionism.

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As much as their painting, what has marked opinion about the Impressionists is the story of their appearance. Who has never heard these anecdotes, these critics accusing Monet of being foggy, the Salon refusing these painters, the bourgeois exclaiming in incomprehension, the word "impressionist" itself thrown as an insult by a journalist from

Charivari

 ? The general public loves the Impressionists so much today, they have such easy access to their aesthetic, that it is astonishing to imagine that this painting could have initially been rejected.

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