Impressionism and Beyond: Making Art Modern in France, 1850-1950

Join curator Lisa Small for a lecture celebrating the opening of French Moderns: Matisse / Renoir / Degas. Today, many people see a world of beauty in landscapes by Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. Or they enjoy a glimpse into the private and public daily lives of the varied people depicted by Berthe Morisot and Edgar Degas, all captured in animated brushwork and rich colors. But this was not always the case. In this talk, Lisa Small takes us back to nineteenth-century Paris to survey the emergence of the successive avant-garde movements that shocked and dismayed the art world.