num_pages: 144
description: For a so-called art movement, impressionist painters were a very dissimilar group. Monet and Renoir liked people-watching and hanging out with the jet set at La Brenouillière. Degas got his kicks from ballet dancers, working models, and racehorses. One thing these artists all had in common, however, was a love of bright, big, bold dabs of it.Impressionist A Crash Course provides lots of color as well as hundreds of amusing anecdotes and little-known facts about this popular period. Readers will not only be able to tell the Manets from the Monets, but will quickly become experts on the many mini-movements within this popular style. This fun-loving guide is appealing, compact, lavishly illustrated, and conveniently organized chronologically spread by spread. For anyone who can’t tell the water lilies from the haystacks, Impressionist A Crash Course is an enjoyable trip for all.• Reader-friendly and informative text brings new dimension to familiar history• Each 2-page spread is devoted to a particular impressionist movement, topic, or individual artist• Compact and easy to follow timeline puts vital events of the period into context
language: English
title: Impressionist Art: A Crash Course
titlecomplete: Impressionist Art: A Crash Course (Crash Courses)
genres: Art
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Div., BPI Comm's, Inc.