( 6 reviews )
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Posted: Sep 11 2007
The subject and it's information is fine, but I found the DVD to be too short. It's about 30 minutes and I would have liked it to have included more information on the paintings and the artists. This was my first time buying a DVD on art, rather than a book. Not totally satisfied but it's a good short DVD on Impressiontists in Paris for those who prefer to watch rather than read a book on it.
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Posted: Jul 18 2007
I think Art Guy misses the point of this exhibit and catalogue. This is intended as an entry point for a general audience not as a serious contribution to new scholarship. The show was easily the best thing I saw in London last year, and the book does a fine job of providing an overview to the lives and interests of young American artists looking to pursue a fresh direction for their painting.The discussion of the 'refinements" and synthesis of their academic experiences with their response to the Impressionist palatte is of particular note. For the most part these are artists who are given short shrift by the academic establishment because they are "followers" rather than innovators. For our current generation of new realists these artists are a valuble harbinger of a new direction. I suspect that for painters like Jeremy Lipking and his ilk, the artists in this catalogue are the very models of their own endeavors. This is a beautiful book, even if you only look at the pictures.
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 9 2007
very informative regarding the american artists who gravitated to France. It follows the show at the metropolitan museum with wonderful photographs and text.
