Art History: Post Impressionists

Program Type:

Arts & Crafts, Genealogy & History, Community & Lifestyle

Age Group:

Adults
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Lecture-style presentation of art history in the late 19th century. We will see how rogue “Impressionist” painters like Monet and Manet “modernized” local landscapes by blurring shapes and experiments with light and color. “Post-Impressionists” like Cezanne, Gaugin, and Van Gogh expressed their reaction to industrialization by painting more exotic, "Fauvistic" (wild) locations.

Meanwhile, rich urban “fat cats” were busy enjoying their “Gilded Age” and proudly financing the first department stores and upscale nightclubs in the famous turn-of-the-century “Art Nouveau” style. 

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