The Art Club is proud to organise a guided tour with the expert Alberto Bragho’: the Impressionists at The National Gallery. The meeting point is at the café on the Ground floor. This event is for Members and Non-Members .
On 15 April 1874, the first exhibition of the ‘Impressionists’ opened in Paris. Out of more than 100 works exhibited, only 4 or 5 were sold.
An economic failure, but a cultural revolution, the consequences of which are still very much alive today. From Manet to Renoir, to Degas, in figurative art, from Baudelaire to Zola, in literature, the Impressionists started a cultural movement whose roots were to be found in Caravaggio, for the use of light, in Delacroix for colour, and in Courbet for the form of the subjects treated. They identified in their works, through the expression of their feelings, with painting ‘en plain air’, and painting techniques free from academic rules, and very expressive. (A. Bragho’)
