{Modern Art [continued (18)]{– Impressionist Painting}}[Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]

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‘Divergent trends began to appear in the work of the major figures, while disputes about whether to continue with the independent exhibition further divided them. Cézanne, who did not exhibit with the Impressionists again, was perhaps the first to realize the critical stage that had been reached.

For the first time, a style had been based on an undisguised characteristic of technique, rather than on the form or formulation of a subject. A style that confesses so openly that painting is nothing but paint raises the old question of how far the qualities of art are intrinsic[,] in a particularly acute form. The qualities of Impressionism in the 1870s[ce] were inseparable from the heightened visual experience of a sensuously satisfying world.

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* – [ibid (Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:368)]

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