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Art of the Impressionists

X102.8 (2 semester units in Art History)

Everybody loves Impressionism but few understand how radical its roots were and how thoroughly it overturned centuries of artistic convention. Take a deeper look at paintings you think you know and develop an understanding that enriches your appreciation of this critical artistic movement. Explore the debt Impressionists owe to both Romantic naturalism and Japanese print-making and research how the new concept of the avant-garde informed the painters and their critical reception. Understand the artistic personalities of painters such as Manet, Monet, Degas, and even Cézanne, whose rigorous explorations of composition, form, and light led the way to the intellectual exuberance of twentieth-century art. Of course you also look at an array of world-famous paintings and explore them in detail, from the vibrant colors that redefined the artistic palette to the easy and free brushstrokes that captured perfectly the sense of place and the sensation of light.

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Wed. Oct. 7, San Francisco

JOSINE SMITS, Ph.D., has taught eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art history at California College of the Arts and Stanford University. She received a master's degree from the Sorbonne and a doctorate from Stanford for a dissertation on Corot. She also was a research scholar at Tokyo University.

• 10 meetings
• Oct. 7 to Dec. 16: Wed., 6:30-9:30 pm (no meeting Nov. 11)
• San Francisco: Room 216, Art and Design Center, 95 Third St.
• $455 (EDP 011387)

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