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Impressionism: 50 Paintings You Should Know (50 You Should Know)

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A great book to give an idea on impressionism. I liked that there was an introduction to explain the main characters - never knew that Manet played such a big role also on the human side - and all the difficulties these painters had to even be recognized as proper artists. Aso liked that there were interesting explanations on each of the 50 paintings. So, easy to read, a joy to look at the paintings, particularly as I have seen quite a number of the originals so can now relate to them even better.

I'm an art teacher and I love this series of books for making warm ups for my art kids. It's generally a good short description of the artwork or artist with some interesting facts and good pictures. This isn't the book for someone looking for something really in depth stuff but if you just want a brief refresher they are great.

This book is set up differently than the rest of the series and I don't like this set up quite as much but it's still pretty good.

I enjoy reading this book. The introductory text provides useful and interesting information about the works. Pictures are also nice.