Places are available for my Gallery Talk on French Impressionism (including artists Renoir, Degas and Seurat) this Thursday 13th January, from 10.30am until 12.30pm at the National Gallery. If you’d like to join the group that morning, please contact me and I’ll send you further details.
French Impressionist artist Degas was at the forefront of artistic innovation in 19th century Paris and, with his perceptive vision and fascination with new pictorial possibilities, he documented contemporary life, such as cafés, ballet dancers and women at their toilette. Renoir combined cutting-edge theory and techniques to capture luminous atmospheric effects in paint and fleeting moments in time. Seurat developed a highly original style of painting based on scientific treatises in colour together with his powers of observation. Impressionist techniques opened up new possibilities in representation for early 20th century artists. The Impressionism collection at the National Gallery is superb and provides a wonderful opportunity to study a wide range of each of these famous artists’ stunning paintings.
