Volume 41, Number 19 · November 17, 1994
The New Painting
By Jack Flam
Origins of Impressionism 27, 1994-January 8, 1995
an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September
Origins of Impressionism
catalog of the exhibition by Gary Tinterow, by Henri Loyrette
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 486 pp., $75.00; $45.00 (paper)
When a loosely associated group of rebellious French painters began to exhibit together in 1874, in what is now commonly referred to as the first of the original 'Impressionist' exhibitions, they did not so define themselves. Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cézanne, Degas, and the others who took part in the exhibition preferred to be regarded as 'independent' artists who were opposed to the official Salons. In the catalog for that first group exhibition they specifically avoided a defining label by referring to themselves as a 'Société Anonyme.'[1]
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