Constable, Duranty, Mallarmé, Impressionism, plein air, and forgetting

• Autores: Joel Isaacson
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 76, Nº 3, 1994, págs. 427-450
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Impressionist painting forms part of a long history of plein-air practice and attitudes that goes back at least to Constable's expressed desire to produce a “natural” painting freed from the impress of previous models. Constable's wish to approach nature freshly, “to forget that I have ever seen a picture,” provides a link across the entire nineteenth century to the aims and practices of Pissarro, Cézanne, and Monet, efforts recognized and endorsed in the two most important critical reviews of Impressionist painting written during the 1870s by Duranty and Mallarmé. The theme of “forgetting” is considered further through close examination of specific works by Pissarro and Cézanne from the late 1870s through the mid-1880s.