{Modern Art [continued (22)]{– Impressionist Painting}}[Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]

[Redbook10:71-72][19910512:1718fp]{Modern Art [continued (22)]{– Impressionist Painting}}[Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]

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‘In 1882[ce], after the Salon jury had been particularly harsh, the Société des Artistes Indépendants was formed. The last Impressionist group show was held in 1886[ce].* Only Monet & Armand Guillaumin, to whose efforts the group owed much of its eventual recognition, were now in the strict sense Impressionists; the group, as such, had virtually ceased to exist. Monet, who had exhibited only once since 1879[ce], continued to build on the original foundation of the style, the rendering of visual impression through colour in a series of paintings that studied a single motif in varying lights. For him the formlessness and the homogeneity of Impressionism were its ultimate virtues. In his last series of “Les Nymphéas” (“water lilies”), painted between 1906 & 1926[ce], the shimmering of light eventually lost its last descriptive content, & only the colour and ** curling movement of his brush carried a general all-pervading sense of equivalence with the visual world.

Renoir's later work was equally expansive; his sympathetic vision of humanity revealed its own inherent breadth & grandeur.

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*64A~|32C1888[ce]

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– but also, consider the origins of

Creation (ref earlier Vol[ume]s…)

– light transformed into/through

colour (Soul-qualities),

& spin (matter);

& that the end of the circle or wheel

of Creation is as its beginning,

Unity/Uniformity….

*** – [ibid (Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:369)]

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