Details the Impressionist "revolution" by which such artists as Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro protested the materialistic emphasis of nineteenth-century French society.
Traces, through text and color plates, the origins, philosophies, developments, and artists of the Romantic and the Impressionist periods in painting, sculpture, and architecture.
Examines the lives of impressionist painters and the influences that shaped their work through re-created albums of letters, sketches, and photographs.
Describes the life and career of the nineteenth-century French Neo-Impressionist artist Georges Seurat, best known for inventing the painting technique known as Pointillism.
While living in France in 1892, Charlotte, a young American girl, writes a journal of her experiences including those among the Impressionist painters at the artist colony of Giverny.
The young daughter of American artists living in Giverny, France, in 1893, records in her journal her exciting trip to Paris to attend an Impressionist art exhibition. Includes biographical sketches of the artists featured in the story.
Offers a brief introduction to the life and work of nineteenth-century artist Mary Cassatt, focusing on her contributions to the Impressionist movement.
