num_pages: 448
description: Celebrations of city streets; tranquil vistas of the countryside and seashore; enchanting images of the leisured classes in domestic interiors or at fashionable Parisian cafes - the work of the Impressionists gives pleasure to art lovers everywhere. But while Impressionism today may appear natural and effortless, contemporaries were shocked by the loose handling of paint and the practice of painting out-of-doors. In defiance of the conservative official Salon, the Impressionists - led by Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas - sought to capture the immediacy of experience.
language: English
title: Impressionism
titlecomplete: Impressionism (Phaidon Art and Ideas)
genres: Art History, Textbooks, 19th Century, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 89
series: Art & Ideas (Phaidon)
publisher: Phaidon Press