Francesco Salvi

Although this book is written for the young adult audience, I found it a useful review of Impressionism and its main artists. It focuses on Paris, and covers major influences such as photography, Jpanese art, and cafe life. It is the wonderful sense of light that infuses impressionism, and there are couple of pages devoted to various paintings by Claude Monet of Rouen Cathedral. A couple of pages are devoted to Eduard Manet who is the link from realism. We do get significant appreciations of Renoir and Degas, and how Cezanne stated the edging out of impressionism.… (plus d'informations)