Impressionism in Russia: dawn of the avant-garde

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In the late nineteenth century, numerous Russian artists found inspiration in the style of French Impressionist painters. Often, a journey to Paris acted as a catalyst for their burgeoning interest in the movement. They developed a preference for working en plein air and aimed to capture transitory effects through a spontaneous and free handling of the brush. Many leading painters of the later Russian avant-garde arrived at their individual styles due to studying the Impressionist use of light. This lavishly illustrated volume explores the many-layered ways French Impressionism influenced the evolution of Russian art from the 1880s to the 1920s, including the work of painters as diverse as Ilya Repin, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin, Natalia Goncharova, and Kazimir Malevich. Essays by many of the leading scholars in the field provide rich new insights into one of the most intriguing chapters of Russian modernism.

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In the land of impressionism: Russian artists' travels to France / Tatiana Yudenkova -- Realist impressions or impressionist realities: a complex boundary in Russian art / Rosalind P. Blakesley -- A new art: the establishment of impressionism in Russia / Olga Atroshchenko -- Perceptual force fields: impressionism and energetics / Susanne Strätling -- "Color is light": from impressionism to suprematism / Maria Kokkori -- Dissolution of the object: impressionist traditions in the Russian Avant-Garde / Irina Vakar -- Catalog of exhibited works -- Modern life: Russian artists in Paris / Tatiana Yudenkova -- Impressionist themes: French motifs / Tatiana Yudenkova -- Impressionist portraits : a new view of the human being / Olga Atroshchenko -- Experiments with color: French momentum / Nicola Kozicharow -- Play with light: interior and still life / Nicola Kozicharow -- From impressionism to abstraction: landscapes / Nicola Kozicharow -- Light and space: impressionism transformed / Irina Vakar.