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Russian "Impressionism" ?
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Aug 14, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/14/00
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Anyone, with information or opinion about the concept of "Russian
Impressionism" is invited to a dialog about the subject. I notice that
several galleries are promoting the idea of a formerly "hidden", or
"undiscovered" genre. I am wondering if the artists represented would have
considered themselves as "Impressionists" in the 50's and 60's, as most of
the advertised paintings date from?.. or would they consider themselves as
artists working within their time/place context, as contemporary?
The question is the neatly marketable cache of "impressionism", when the
individual
paintings I have seen in print seem to suggest a spirit of recording
domestic and landscape subjects boldly and quickly, as a notation, a record,
a place to be remembered. Impressionism, as a school of painting, seems,
historically, more about a formal experimentation with perception and
corresponding expression in paint.
The idea of "Impressionism" seems to fill galleries and museums with
unwitting seekers of culture, packaged as an easy take on imagery from a
context that is remote, yet familiar, and rendered in a blur of
individualistic painting styles that contained years of development, a
century ago.
Was there.... soviet era "Impressionism" ?
Impressionism" is invited to a dialog about the subject. I notice that
several galleries are promoting the idea of a formerly "hidden", or
"undiscovered" genre. I am wondering if the artists represented would have
considered themselves as "Impressionists" in the 50's and 60's, as most of
the advertised paintings date from?.. or would they consider themselves as
artists working within their time/place context, as contemporary?
The question is the neatly marketable cache of "impressionism", when the
individual
paintings I have seen in print seem to suggest a spirit of recording
domestic and landscape subjects boldly and quickly, as a notation, a record,
a place to be remembered. Impressionism, as a school of painting, seems,
historically, more about a formal experimentation with perception and
corresponding expression in paint.
The idea of "Impressionism" seems to fill galleries and museums with
unwitting seekers of culture, packaged as an easy take on imagery from a
context that is remote, yet familiar, and rendered in a blur of
individualistic painting styles that contained years of development, a
century ago.
Was there.... soviet era "Impressionism" ?
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