Impressionist Art: A Crash Course (Crash Courses)

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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 BrenouillixE8;re. Degas got his kicks from ballet dancers, working models, and racehorses. One thing these artists all had in common, however, was a love of color: bright, big, bold dabs of it.Impressionist Art: 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 canx2019;t tell the water lilies from the haystacks, Impressionist Art: A Crash Course is an enjoyable trip for all. x2022; Reader-friendly and informative text brings new dimension to familiar historyx2022; Each 2-page spread is devoted to a particular impressionist movement, topic, or individual artistx2022; Compact and easy to follow timeline puts vital events of the period into context