French Impressionism:  An Accessible Paradise
Every year, the renowned lectures given by Rosamond Bernier at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are sold out months in advance.  Her lectures are really conversations, intimate chats about artists, their friends, their society and their work.Now your chair at home can become the seat you couldn’t buy in New York.  These DVD’s are the actual performances filmed as they were given "Live At The Met."As co-founder of L’Oeil, the influential vanguard art magazine published in Paris, Bernier became friendly with Matisse, Picasso, Miró, Léger, Braque, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Duchamp and many other modern masters. These lectures have a depth that only a firsthand acquaintance would allow.AN ACCESSIBLE PARADISEThe day came when the Impressionists seemed to have had the last word, in and out of doors, in town and country alike.  But painting had not come to a halt.  Even then, the Post-Impressionists were all set to take it a stage further.  Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne were alike their predecessors in that they wanted to be themselves.  And by being themselves, they brought painting into the 20th century.