‘There are too many unpleasant things in life without creating more’: why Impressionism is the world’s favourite art movement

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"Impressionism is the world’s favourite art movement.

Impressionist paintings create an oasis of beauty into which a viewer can
escape from a sometimes dark and troubling world, or simply from the mundane
boredom of urban living.

The Impressionist master, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, once famously observed:

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty.
Yes, pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without
creating still more of them.

The new Impressionism exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria brings
together over a 100 of these pleasant, cheerful and pretty paintings and
graphics. It features some of the greatest names in French Impressionism,
including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro,
Édouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Paul Signac and Alfred Sisley."

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