Derniers impressionnistes

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For half a century, faced with a modernity that would gradually devour everything, our artists were able to seduce audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, critics, curators and international exhibitions. Coming from the glorious Symbolist generation, they had breathed the same perfumes, especially that of Impressionism. Each of them had their own style, perfectly identifiable, but all shared a sentimental vision of nature: to make beings and nature as we see them, leaving guess what they have deep, tragic or mysterious. This is how they were described as intimate. By respecting the veracity of appearances, by perpetuating the permanent values ​​of European art, the concern for the evocation in the landscape or the psychology in the portrait, in endeavoring to render the poetry, the tenderness of their subjects, they managed to speak to us about ourselves. This is probably why the public always rediscover them with enthusiasm, as evidenced by the success of exhibitions dedicated to each of them. Intimacy was the last major current of French art to be devoted to nature. At the end of their career, our artists were regarded by the observers of their time as the last representatives of Impressionism.

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