{Modern Art [continued (16)]{– Impressionist Painting}}[Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]

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‘Impressionism. The first steps towards the systematic impressionist style were taken in France in Monet's coast scenes from 1866[ce]* onwards, notably "The Terrace" (1866[ce]; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), in which he chose a subject that allowed a full palette of primary colour.

The decisive development took place in 1869[ce],** when Monet & Renoir painted together at the riverside resort of La Grenouillère. On the evidence of the resulting pictures, it would appear that Monet contributed the style, the pattern of brush strokes, the light tonality, and the brilliance of colour; Renoir's versions show, by contrast, the overall iridescence,*** as well as the urbane social comment, that were his alone.

Working at Louveciennes from 1869[ce],**** Pisarro evolved the drier & more flexible handling of crumbly paint that was also to be a common feature of Impressionist painting.

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***( – showing colours like those of a rainbow; changing colour with position – C[oncise] O[xford] D[ictionary])

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