Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Homevision
• VHS Release Date: May 22, 2001
• Run Time: 25 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00005EBSD
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #480,914 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Painters Manet, Monet, Morisot, and Renoir helped develop a unique style of French painting in the late 1800s known as impressionism. This 22-minute video concentrates on these artists' exploration of the meaning of modernity, their focus on an instant in time, and their constant struggle to convey an immediate impression within a fluctuating scene. Writer and narrator Kathleen Adler describes how Monet and Renoir consciously developed a system of mark-making to represent various areas within a painting, thereby creating a whole aesthetic of quickness. She examines specific works like Monet's Bathing at La Grenouillére and Renoir's La Grenouillére (strikingly similar paintings of a single location), concentrating on the specific areas within each painting and pointing out the similarities and differences of technique between painters. Adler highlights the impressionists' desire to capture the fleeting effects of weather and light within a modern and changing urban world, citing that desire as the impetus for creating a new style of "painting quickly." Adler also chronicles the emergence of the sketch as a valued art form, tracing its evolution from a preliminary study for a larger work to a valued work in and of itself. Finally, Adler offers the work of Vincent van Gogh as evidence of how the impressionistic focus changed the entire future of painting. --Tami Horiuchi

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Impressionism was the moist important pictorial movement of the nineteenth century: it changed both the art that followed and public taste. Many Impressionists works appear to have been painted rapidly in one or only a few working sessions, and retain ev

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars View again and again, February 22, 2003

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This review is from: Impression - Painting Quickly In France [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This one of my favorite art videos. My friends, during their return visits, often ask to replay this video. Being a self-declared artist,I never tire of watching this again and again. There is so much to benefit from this video, whether for art, history or the enjoyment of the journey.