🗞️ NGV French Impressionism exhibition expresses rage, self-doubt and joy of artists including Monet and Manet

NGV French Impressionism exhibition expresses rage, self-doubt and joy of artists including Monet and Manet

Some often-reproduced French Impressionist paintings might feel very familiar, but to see them in person is to experience them in an entirely new way, curator Katie Hanson says.

The Impressionists were the original rebels — rallying against the status quo of the time; painting with pastels; and capturing abstract and brightly coloured landscape scenery in their paintings, which were considered shocking in the 1860s and 1870s... [5951 chars]

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Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation