Painting the Impressionist Landscape: Lessons in Interpreting Light and Color
By Lois Griffel.
Description
Impressionism—its techniques as well as its practitioners, past and present—continues to excite the passion of artists and art enthusiasts alike. From the plein-air landscapes first painted near the forests of Barbizon outside Paris, through the fields of Giverny that Monet immortalized, to the art of American expatriates such as John Singer Sargent and the European-trained American nativists like William Merritt Chase, the influence of impressionism on American art has had a long and distinguished history.Through artistic principles developed by Charles Hawthorne, an influentia...
ISBN(s)
082303643X, 9780823036431
