Monet and The Impressionist Movement: a slideshow | Richmond Dist.

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Artist and lecturer Marlene Aron will be showing over one hundred works of art by Impressionist masters Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cezanne, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet plus the early works of Vincent Van Gogh, and many more.

Technological advances in the 1860’s enabled these artists to paint outdoors because of the invention of oil paint in tin tubes. Impressionists, Aron said, forged ahead into new and fresh territory, capturing the effects of light on nature, using bright and light colors, experimented with various brush strokes and gradually making art a more personal, expressive and unique thing to each artist.

This slide lecture coincides with the “Birth of Impressionism” exhibit currently on view at the de Young Museum. Aron, an artist who has spent 30 years researching the life and work of Van Gogh, is giving this lecture in librairies and retirement homes throughout the Bay Area in 2010.

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