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150 Years of Impressionism

The End of Impressionism
"Techniques vary, art stays the same."
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Nicole Miras
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Mary Cassatt: The American Impressionist
"I have touched with a sense of art some people—they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?"
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Nicole Miras
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What's Wrong with Renoir?
"I had gone to the end of impressionism and I was reaching the conclusion that I didn't know how either to paint or draw."
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Nicole Miras
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Edgar Degas: The Good, the Bad, and the Ballet
"The artist must live apart, and his private life should be unknown."
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Nicole Miras
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Paul Cézanne: The Outsider
"Surely this man has lived and lives a beautiful interior novel, and the demon of art dwells within him."
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Nicole Miras
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Camille Pissarro Finds His Voice
"One must have only one master—nature; she is the one always to be consulted."
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Nicole Miras
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Berthe Morisot: the Great Lady of Impressionism
"I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they."
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Nicole Miras
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Manet at the Café
"Never will he completely overcome the gaps in his temperament, but he has temperament, that is the important thing."
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Nicole Miras
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The (Eventual) Triumph of Claude Monet
"P.S. I was so upset yesterday that I made the blunder of throwing myself into the water. Fortunately, there were no bad results."
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Nicole Miras
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The Impressionist Exhibition, 150 Years Later
Today, the Impressionists are a ubiquitous presence in museums around the world. But the First Impressionist Exhibition, held in Paris in 1874, was met…
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Nicole Miras
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