Then he began learning about his forebear's work, becoming expert in the Impressionism his parents had snubbed (that rejection, perhaps, an act of classic Modernism).
And two years after the 1879 Wargemont vista, he turned out an aristocratic portrait of his patron Berard's son that could easily date from the late 1860s, before his summer of Impressionism.
That same year, Nevinson tried his hand at Impressionism à la Monet.
But Satie's visionary, pioneering later work took him way beyond his friends' musical Impressionism.
The nature of this sunlit region gave greater encouragement to his separation from Impressionism, which to him was associated with the landscapes of the valley of the Seine.
His learned preoccupation with optics, the struggles to analyze and represent the diffusion of light, fathered a poetry of radiance and grandfathers him into the ancestry of Impressionism; his emotively weighty manipulation of pigment did the same for Expressionism.
It focuses on Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet), the giant of Impressionism; his son Jean, the future giant of cinema; and the woman who would become the father's last model and the son's first wife.
And except for some caricatures of the colorful poor, he avoided grittier urban subjects, often adopting aerial vistas, observing the hurly-burly from a safe height, distinguishing his brand of Impressionism from its more radical and abstract French modes.
Charcot's tastes in art were conservative; he displayed no affinity for the avant-gardes of his time, including impressionism, or for contemporary musicians, such as César Franck or Hector Berlioz.
