The Impressionists: Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne

by David Spence

Filled with fascinating facts and insights into many great works of impressionist art, this resource explores the lives of four of the most well-known and respected artists of the impressionist movement--Cezanne, Degas, Monet and Renoir--and explains how their paintings impacted and changed the conventional thinking about art and artistic depiction of life.

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2010

Reviews

[Evelyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Informative and interesting, not an in-depth book, but not bad. My only complaint is that in my soft-cover version, much of the center of paintings was lost to the fold. To really see the whole painting, I would have to check another source like the internet.

[carl theaker · Rating 3 out of 5]

'The Impressionists' focuses on Monet, Renoir, Degas and Cezanne,
their connections with each other, but also with the artists that
influenced them and Impressionism in general.

I liked that rather than just a personal history of the artist
the short chapters explained "Influences & Early Works", "What
do the artists paintings say?", "How were the paintings made?"
"The paintings of the day", "The audience for the pictures".

These themes lent a variety of perspectives and insights
to the Impressionists and their works.