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Monday, December 4, 1972
THE ART OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS
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An exhibition of reproductions of impressionist paintings consisting
of 49 large colour prints with explanatory texts is now on display at the City
Museum and Art Gallery.
The purpose of the display is to clarify the term impressionism which
is said to still puzzle many people in Hong Kong who know little about the
development of Western art.
The exhibition traces the development of the impressionist movement
from the 1860s until the beginning of the twentieth century.
It discusses man's fascination with light, how the impressionist
painters sought to render their optical experience, how their vision was
affected by theories of complementary colours and the invention of photography.
The exhibition which closes on Christmas Eve falls into five sections -
general introduction; Monet; Sisley, Pissarro, Cassatt and Morisot; Renoir
and Degas.
The first section introduces the movement as a whole whereas the
others concentrate on individual styles of the major artists.
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