Volume 36, Number 14 · September 28, 1989
Fleeting Impressionism
By Jack Flam
Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society
by Robert L. Herbert
Yale University Press, 324 pp., $60.00
Impressionist paintings often seem somewhat like painted snapshots—views of a particular place at a particular time, so vividly rendered that they convince us utterly of their verisimilitude. Sailboats moored at the river's edge, women lounging in a garden, sun-drenched fields of flowers—in Monet's or Renoir's depictions of such subjects, you frequently have the sense that the painter merely set his easel down and began to paint, capturing the scene almost instantaneously.
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