12/1/2022 Chance encounters and connectionsIn November 2021 our guest speaker Jack Wotherspoon explained who met whom, where and when, and how it led to the formation of the group of artists we now know as The Impressionists. It was fascinating to go back in time and understand the struggle for change in academic circles and the vital importance of investors from America to the survival of the young painters. Public taste was conditioned to a certain style. Monet, Renoir, and their contemporaries could easily fulfil the demand for academic art but hungered to create something new and fresh. They wanted to capture what they saw, be outdoors, paint the play of light in broad brushstrokes. Jack skilfully put the story into the context of the market forces of the time which almost starved but eventually enriched most of the ‘subversive’ creators of the works that we know and love. We look forward to welcoming Jack again in a future season.
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