Study Day
Session 1 The Establishment of Impressionism
- The forerunners of Impressionism – Corot, plein air painters and the Barbizon School
- Constable and Turner
- Boudin and Jongkind in Le Havre
- The politics of the Salon under Napoleon 111
- Academic painters and the Beaux-Arts tradition
- Manet, The Dejeuner sur l’Herbe and the Salon des Refuses
- Degas
- The influence of Photography
- New chemical pigments and painting techniques
- The Franco-Prussian War
- The first Impressionist exhibition in Nadar’s studio 1874
Session 2 High Impressionism 1874-1914
- Monet’s painting in Paris and along the Seine 1860-1880 – Argenteuil, La Grenouillere, Vernon, Vetheuil
- Renoir and Monet
- Sisley’s snow paintings
- Pissarro and paintings of towns
- Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt
- Gustave Caillebotte
- Late Monet – the series – Grainstacks, Rouen Cathedral, The Thames, Waterlilies, Poplars on the Epte
Session 3 Impressionism Outside France
- Impressionism in Britain – links with France through Sickert and Wilson Steer
- Formation of the New English Art Club 1886
- Newlyn School, Glasgow Boys
- Impressionism in USA – links with France through Sargent and Whistler
- The Ten American Painters – Childe Hassam, J. Alden Weir, John Henry Twachtman, Robert Reid, Willard Metcalf, Frank Benson, Edmund Tarbell, Thomas Dewing, Joseph DeCamp, and Edward Simmons
- Impressionism in Italy and Scandinavian countries.
- The lasting legacy of Impressionism
