132,625
edits
Changes
From TheBookbag
Jump to navigationJump to searchBook Reviews From The Bookbag (view source)
Revision as of 16:24, 14 January 2010
, 16:24, 14 January 2010no edit summary
'''Read [[Features|new features]].'''
__NOTOC__
{{newreview
|author=Sue Roe
|title=The Private Lives of the Impressionists
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=In the early 1860s a group of young Parisian artists were keen to exhibit their work, despite opposition from the official art world. Their protests at being spurned by the Salon, the French equivalent of the Royal Academy, resulted in their paintings being shown at the rather disparagingly-named Salon des Refusés, where crowds and critics came to view - and jeer. When they held the first of their own exhibitions a few years later, one reviewer said that they 'seem to have declared war on beauty', while another assured his readers that every canvas must have been the work of some practical joker who had dipped his brushes in paint, smeared it onto yards of canvas, and signed the result with several different names.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099458349</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
