Sentence examples for impressionism from from inspiring English sources

The book begins with a brief introduction to Impressionism, from its early days in the Fontainebleau forest to its final days in Paris and southern France.

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.

Even as he distinguished his and Seurat's "scientific Impressionism" from the "romantic Impressionism" of Monet, he managed to unite what was by then a fractious group for a final Impressionist exhibition in 1886.

Last year two traveling exhibitions, "Impressionism From European Museums" and "Monet at Giverny from the Musee Marmottan," sent attendance skyward at the Seattle Art Museum, the High Museum in Atlanta, the Denver Art Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and the Portland Art Museum in Oregon.

The third exhibition, "Childe Hassam and Connecticut Impressionism," from June 11 through Oct. 3 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, includes 25 paintings and 25 prints that reveal how artists like Hassam, John Henry Twachtman and Charles H. Davis shifted from the muted tonalism of the Barbizon school to Impressionism.

It also finds him turning Impressionism, from which he learned much, to his own corrective ends, grounding its scintillations in plain, solid forms.

* "THE AGE OF IMPRESSIONISM: EUROPEAN PAINTING FROM THE ORDRUPGAARD COLLECTION, COPENHAGEN," Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, (212) 535-7710 (through Sept. 8).

From March 15 to July 10, the Mus?D'Orsay, in the Seventh Arrondissement, will present "Neo-Impressionism: From Seurat to Paul Klee," a collection of around 120 paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Signac's "Sails and Pine Trees" (below).

Now more than 60 Marquet works from the Pompidou Center in Paris are on view through April 7 at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in "From Fauvism to Impressionism: Albert Marquet From the Pompidou, Paris".

Like the peerless National Portrait Gallery off Trafalgar Square, the London theater is packed at the moment with rich depictions of personalities that span the centuries and run the scale of techniques from Impressionism to Expressionism, from Holbein-like exactitude to Daumier-esque exaggeration.

The exhibitions, "The Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from Mus?d'Orsay," and its sequel, "Post-Impressionist Masterpieces From the Mus?d'Orsay" drew more than 2.6 million visitors in Madrid Sann Francisco Nashville, Tennessee Tokyo and Canberrara.