Mary’s Landscape Art Info

A friend loaned me the book Cezanne – his Life and Art, by Jack Lindsay, which Arts Review says “must surely become the definitive source-book for the relation between his life and his art”.  It illustrates the struggles he had in becoming an artist as well as problems all the Impressionists had in being accepted by the Salon and the public.

Each of the Impressionists had his/her own style, of course.  They originally called themselves Naturalists because they tried to paint the way things really looked in nature, rather than in the traditional imaginative situations.  Their landscape paintings broke with tradition and were painted outdoors en plein air.