Influences upo movements were varied: from exposure to Eastern decorative arts, particularly Japane printmaking, to the coloristiovations of Turner and Delacroix, to a arore realism in the depi of on life, as found i work of painters such as Jean-Fran?ois Millet. The advocates of realism stood against the idealism of the tradition-bound academic art that enjoyed publid official favor.
The most successful painters of the day worked either through issions or through large public art exhibitions of their own work. There were official, gover-sponsored painters’ unions, while govers regularly held public exhibitions of new fine and decorative arts.
Artists of the Impressionist period believed that people do not e objects but only the light which they reflect. They therefore argued that painters should paint in natural light rather than in studios and should capture the effects of light in their work. Red Rag Bath Art Gallery artists who still follow this approaclude: David Atkins, Jeremy Barlow, David Farren, John Kingsleyand Bruce Yardley.
Influences upo movements were varied: from exposure to Eastern decorative arts, particularly Japane printmaking, to the coloristiovations of Turner and Delacroix, to a arore realism in the depi of on life, as found i work of painters such as Jean-Fran?ois Millet. The advocates of realism stood against the idealism of the tradition-bound academic art that enjoyed publid official favor.
The most successful painters of the day worked either through issions or through large public art exhibitions of their own work. There were official, gover-sponsored painters’ unions, while govers regularly held public exhibitions of new fine and decorative arts.
Artists of the Impressionist period believed that people do not e objects but only the light which they reflect. They therefore argued that painters should paint in natural light rather than in studios and should capture the effects of light in their work. Red Rag Bath Art Gallery artists who still follow this approaclude: David Atkins, Jeremy Barlow, David Farren, John Kingsleyand Bruce Yardley.