From Monet to Van Gogh: A History of Impressionism - 4 DVD's - 24 Lectures (The Great Courses, Course No. 7185 and 7186 - Part 1 and 2)

They appeared in a period of upheaval. They displayed their shocking and startling new paintings in a series of exhibitions from 1874 to 1886. And by the 1890s, this coalition of artists who rebelled against the formality of the French Academy had created the most famous artistic movement in history. They were the Impressionists, and renowned art critic, historian, and professor Richard Brettell is your expert guide to a group of artists who created a new, intensely personal vision of the world. Who were the Impressionists? What's the difference between a Manet and a Monet? And why is this 19th-century style still so appealing? The 24 masterful lectures of From Monet to Van Gogh: A History of Impressionism explain the Impressionist revolution with a deft mix of history, biography, and art. One of the legacies of Impressionism is to leave the viewer with a profound sense of life-of life captured on the canvas, through motion, light, and color, and of life lived by these remarkable artists, always seeking to experience and to learn, to better capture the reality before their eyes. This course is an absorbing lesson in the marvelous cultural, historical, and visual experiences that great paintings provide. Richard Brettell, Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, introduces the style, subject, and function of Impressionist painting by artists including Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Van Gogh. Explains how Impressionism changed the way that people see the world and examines how these artists documented life in the latter half of the 19th century and provided models of behavior, decorum, and urban beauty that persist to this day. Read more... Abstract: Richard Brettell, Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, introduces the style, subject, and function of Impressionist painting by artists including Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Van Gogh. Explains how Impressionism changed the way that people see the world and examines how these artists documented life in the latter half of the 19th century and provided models of behavior, decorum, and urban beauty that persist to this day Content: Disc 1: Lecture 1. The realist and the idealist -- Lecture 2. Napolean III's Paris -- Lecture 3. Baudelaire and the definition of Modernism -- Lecture 4. The shock of the new -- Lecture 5. The painters of modern life -- Lecture 6. Pierre-Auguste Renoir -- Disc 2: Lecture 7. Impressions in the countryside -- Lecture 8. Paris under siege -- Lecture 9. The first exhibition -- Lecture 10. Monet and Renoir in Argenteuil -- Lecture 11. Cézanne and Pissarro in Pontoise -- Lecture 12. Berthe Morisot -- Disc 3: Lecture 13. The third exhibition -- Lecture 14. Edgar Degas -- Lecture 15. Gustave Caillebotte -- Lecture 16. Mary Cassatt -- Lecture 17. Manet's later works -- Lecture 18. Departures -- Disc 4: Lecture 19. Paul Gauguin -- Lecture 20. The final exhibition -- Lecture 21. The studio of the south: Van Gogh and Gauguin -- Lecture 22. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -- Lecture 23. The Nabis -- Lecture 24. La fin.