Watering Can

~The generation that followed the Impressionists experienced the Commune and its repression as a childhood trauma and their attempt to achieve a more monumental expression of modernity represents not only a...

~While the critics theorized about the sketch, the Academy taught, in fact, the elaborate sketching procedures. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Academy’s technical sketch training provided the independents with a basis for their personal experiments. Seen in this context, an examination of the Academy’s sketch practice may very...