Even the usually vituperative critic Roger Fry was forced to admit his importance to Monet and most other artists of the day.
Bastien-Lepage
No other artist was so influential on the last 25 years of painting in the 19th century, although he died when only 36.
Rural naturalist, Impressionist, and Pre-Raphaelite styles in portraits, landscapes, genre, and religious paintings: that is versatility.
He worked his way from rural naturalism, through Impressionism, to a distinctive Post-Impressionism.
Sorolla’s paintings of the seaside are distinctive and some of the greatest essays on light ever completed. He is not just a painter’s painter, but deserves recognition as a true modern Master.
The influence of the Impressionists led Claus from rural realism to his distinctive ‘luminism’ and eventually, whilst in exile in London, to his own variant of impressionism.
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