The impressionism of Debussy is often mentioned in connection with Clarke's work, particularly its lush textures and modernistic harmonies.
After discovering the impressionism of Debussy, he fashions a synthesis of French and German musical values.
His affinities remained essentially with the tonal Impressionism of the earliest stages of the modern movement rather than with the art of colour that developed from it, though he eventually made the transition in old age.
But it must be remembered that he himself was for the moment a provincial with tastes that were old-fashioned in a Paris already familiar with the Post-Impressionism of Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent van Gogh.
A 500-page free-form series of digressions, it is by turns exhilarating and enervating, less a memoir than a self-portrait, with all the impressionism that implies.
"They were rebellious, totally fed up with the success of Impressionism and getting bored.
Within 15 minutes he had appeared in her kitchen, presenting her with the script of "Impressionism" and saying, "Darling, you absolutely have to do it".
The intense black of the woman's dress and hat, set off by the pale background with yellowish streaks, gives it an abrupt expressiveness at odds with the softness of Impressionism.
Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscape, an exhibition at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, in collaboration with the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati and the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, contextualizes Daubigny's work, techniques, and ideas with the naissance of Impressionism, and connects him in a lineage that stretches to Post-Impressionist Van Gogh.
But turmoil brought on by the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 interfered with the full impact of these changes as with the progress of impressionism.
