Gallery Talk/Lecture
Pissarro and the Structuring of the Impressionist Landscape, 1870–1885
Saturday, January 10, 2009 2:00 PM
Lecture by Richard Brettell, Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art & Aesthetics, University of Texas at Dallas
Pissarro and Cézanne brought a structural rigor to their landscape depictions of the 1870s that was at odds with the impressionist aesthetic embodied in landscapes by Monet, Renoir, and Sisley. Brettell shows the gradual “structuring” of facture, color, and composition in the landscape paintings of the two. Sponsored by the European Paintings Council.
