Impressionists. Diaries and letters. Venturi L.

The most vivid and significant phenomenon of French painting of the last third of the XIX century was impressionism. Representatives of this current, trying to oppose themselves to classical art, were looking for their own paths and forms of creative expression. The innovation and ideas of this direction have completely changed the artistic perception of art of the XIX and XX centuries. The history of the study of impressionism has more than one century. The book “Archives of Impressionism”, published in 1939 by the famous Italian art critic Lionello Venturi, is a collection of valuable documents-letters of ideist artists addressed to the Duran-Ruel Paul-their constant marshane and patron, whose biography is also included in the book. The most numerous letters of the main representatives of the group are Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Kamil Pissarro. Regular correspondence began in the early 1880s and continued until the death of artists.

These letters cover the most diverse aspects of the life and activities of artists: views on art, projects of new exhibitions and new works, negotiations with collectors, relations Between the artists themselves, the descriptions of the new areas visited by them in search of new motives, the messages about home troubles and joys, experienced material difficulties. The vivid personality of the authors is manifested in letters very clearly: Renoir's serenity, calm delicacy of Pissarro, lively temperament Monet.

It is in this living carnal fabric interpreted from everyday events, a distinctly reliable picture of the life and creativity of wonderful painters. have passed the difficult way of struggle for new art.