The bridge over the abyss. Impressionists and XX century

The history of impressionism, which once and for all has influenced all subsequent art, covers only 12 years: from the first exhibition in 1874, where the famous “impression” was presented, according to the last, eighth, in 1886. Eduard Manet and Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lottrek and Paul Gauguin-with the story of which this book begins-one of the first began to oppose the conventions of “classical” painting formed by that time.

Vincent Van Gogh and Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and Casimir Malevich, unlike their predecessors, created their reality on canvases. They did not try to convey to the viewer Impression - the beauty of everyday reality and convey what the eye sees at a particular moment. On a journey from impressionism to surrealism, from impression - to emotion, from Venus of Milos to the Black Square invites us to Paola Dmitrievna Volkov in the next volume of the Bridge across the abyss series