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Impressionists by the seaAn Impact of Technology on Art

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An exhibition at the Royal Academy, London7 July – 30 September 2007

Before the railway, Normandy & Brittany belong to the locals …

A natural landscape by Jean Francois Millet in 1854 …

Artists painted the struggles of the fishermen against the elements …

And the women who lived off the beaches …

The riders at the beach …

Railway reached Trouville in 1863 …

Boudin started painting holidaymakers and the beach parties …

Boudin exhibited a series beach paintings in the Salon …

An early contribution from James Whistler, an American …

Soon Courbet started to paint the effects of weather on the coast …

Courbet painted some 25 canvases for his ‘Wide View of the Open Sea’ in 1865…

Courbet painted even more canvases later …

The forces of nature …

La Port d’Aval …

La Port d’Aval …

Courbet’s The Wave …

Jules Hereau’s The Return from Shrimping …

Monet followed Boudin and started painting beach scenes …

Monet’s Beach at Sainte Adresse …

Monet’s wife Camille and Boudin’s wife (possibly) …

Monet’s beach hotels …

Monet’s beach hotel …

Close up of the beach promenade …

Corot has a go at the seascape too …

Manet also started painting beach scenes …

Manet’s wife and brother …

From another impressionist, Cazin …

A modern version of Women living of the beach, by the American, John Sargent …

John Sargent’ s aristocracy of the beach …

Development of new beach resort …

The heightened tone of the dramatic weather on the French coast, by Pelouse…

By now several beach paintings were reaching the Paris Salon …

Monet turned away from the beach scene and return to nature …

Monet’s Rocks at Low Tide …

Monet’s Shadows on the Sea …

Monet’s Rough Sea …

Monet’s the Cliff …

Monet’s Rainy Weather…

Once again fishermen replaced the holidaymakers …

Renoir picked up the holidaymakers theme while others left …

Renoir …

Gauguin made his contribution too …

Holidaymakers theme from the American female impressionist, Mary Cassatt …

Together Boudin also turned away from the beach scene …

Timeline Impressionist

Timeline Impressionists by the Sea

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