Impressionism
| Subject: Art History | |
| Level: High School | |
| Provider: Zdravko Cvetkovski High School | |
| Author: ///// | |
| Language: English | |
| Abstract: In the middle of the 19th century—a time of change, as Emperor Napoleon III rebuilt Paris and waged war—the Académie des Beaux-Arts dominated French art. The Académie was the preserver of traditional French painting standards of content and style. Historical subjects, religious themes, and portraits were valued; landscape and still life were not. The Académie preferred carefully finished images that looked realistic when examined closely. In the early 1860s, four young artists discovered that they shared an interest in painting landscape and contemporary life rather than historical or mythological scenes. |
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