Understanding Art: Impressionism
(2011)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 1
The Final Flourish
Episode 4 - 7-22-2011
1h 0m
Seurat married optical science with artistic inspiration in 1884's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, whose countless dots combine colors in innovative ways. Van Gogh studied Japanese prints, and Monet completed Water Lilies.
8.2/10
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Painting to the People
Episode 3 - 7-15-2011
59m
The "ballet rats" inhabiting Edgar Degas's luminous pastels pulsed with vitality, while Gustav Caillebotte's Floor Scrapers (1875) portrayed laborers for the first time. Female artists also emerged: Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassat, an American.
8.4/10Haven't Seen
The Great Outdoors
Episode 2 - 7-08-2011
1h 0m
Impressionists trekked where no artists had gone before. Monet risked drowning to paint the coast of Etretat, Renoir deftly navigated the social currents of the Moulin de la Galette, and Paul Cezanne inverted landscape perspective.
8.5/10Haven't Seen
The Gang of Four
Episode 1 - 7-01-2011
1h 0m
As Paris underwent massive social and architectural shifts, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean-Frederic Bazille, and Camille Pisarro broke artistic ground with unconventional portraits of pleasure spots and unlikely landscapes.
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The Great Outdoors
Episode 2 - 7-08-2011
1h 0m
Impressionists trekked where no artists had gone before. Monet risked drowning to paint the coast of Etretat, Renoir deftly navigated the social currents of the Moulin de la Galette, and Paul Cezanne inverted landscape perspective.
8.5/10Haven't Seen
Painting to the People
Episode 3 - 7-15-2011
59m
The "ballet rats" inhabiting Edgar Degas's luminous pastels pulsed with vitality, while Gustav Caillebotte's Floor Scrapers (1875) portrayed laborers for the first time. Female artists also emerged: Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassat, an American.
8.4/10Haven't Seen
The Final Flourish
Episode 4 - 7-22-2011
1h 0m
Seurat married optical science with artistic inspiration in 1884's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, whose countless dots combine colors in innovative ways. Van Gogh studied Japanese prints, and Monet completed Water Lilies.
8.2/10Haven't Seen
