Lecture 3: Monet and Cézanne — light as abstraction

If you missed Lecture 3: Monet and Cézanne — light as abstraction from Terence Maloon’s series The 50 years that changed painting 1867–1917, you can watch the recorded version below or on our Youtube channel. 

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Lecture 3: Monet and Cézanne — light as abstraction

The group of artists who became known as Impressionists devised a startlingly effective way of capturing natural appearances, portraying scenes bathed in a unifying light. Their submissions were consistently rejected by the Salon juries — and whereas their works contrasted increasingly with those of their contemporaries, it became harder to differentiate the individuals in the group. Monet and Cézanne greatly admired one another, but their work began to diverge in ways that bore rich implications for the history that followed.