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Birth Of Impressionism - Manet, Renoir, Monet Movie
Three films focusing on great impressionists and concentrating on one of their masterworks. Manet - Model With Black Cat, A naked woman lying on a bed. A subject pertinent to painting history for the longest time. Yet the Olympia created quite a scandal at the salon exhibition of 1865. This indecent woman staring back at the viewer defied the rules of classicism. Manet, already renowned because of his 'Dejeuner sur l'Herbe', which he had presented two years earlier at the Salon des Refuses, became the hero of a younger generation that would go on to invent impressionism. Renoir - The Lovely Summer Afternoons, A dance for the common people in the mills of Montmartre. A festive Sunday crowd during the summer of 1876. It was all Renoir needed to transform his painting into a manifesto of a new movement. The 'Bal du Moulin de la Galette', first shown at the third Impressionists exhibition, was one of the few canvases to escape the vicious mockery with which the painters of this new school were received. Monet - The Colour Of The Instant In 1895, Claude Monet did his first painting of the Japanese bridge that he had constructed over a small pond dotted with water lillies. He returned to this subject a dozen times before his death in 1926. Monet worked on several painting simultaneously, intent on capturing every minor differentiation in the light falling on the bridge, the water, the leaves and the flowers. He subsequently exhibited the paintings together: it is from these that the modern concept of a series originates.
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