After Impressionism

Synopsis: A compilation of three 30-minute videos from the Palettes series devoted to great works of painting history. The secrets of the images are revealed using video animation techniques. This tape covers three post-impressionist paintings by Vuillard (Public Gardens), Seurat (A Sunday On La Grande Jatte) and Toulouse-Lautrec. (Decoration Of The Booth Of La Goulue).
Series: Palettes, Series
Language: English
Country: France
Year of release: 2004
Year of production: 2003
Subjects: Art
Keywords: art appreciation; Impressionism; modern art; paintings - French; Seurat, Georges (1859-1891); Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri; Post-Impressionism; Vuillard, Edouard

Title: Vuillard: memory lanes
Synopsis: The ‘Public Gardens’, painted by Vuillard in 1974, is a series of nine wall panels. Five of the panels are in the Orsay museum, three are in other museums, but the ninth has disappeared. Under the apparent simplicity of the subject matter, many historical and technical mysteries are hidden. The use of video tools enables some of these to be clarified and even the missing panel to be reconstructed. Made in 1990.
Duration: 30 mins
Title: Seurat: an orange green Utopia
Synopsis: 'A Sunday on la Grande Jatte’ was exhibited by a 28-year-old unknown artist, Georges Seurat, at the last show of Impressionists in 1886. The classically-handled landscape populated with caricatured figures, caused some scandal. It led to the birth of the neo-impressionist group and influenced the later gauvist, cubist and futurist schools. Made in 1991.
Duration: 30 mins
Title: Toulouse-Lautrec: a fin de siecle legend
Synopsis: La Goulue, a famous can-can dancer, asked her friend Toulouse Lautrec for two paintings to decorate her booth. The two large canvases he created were later sold, cut into pieces and eventually restored in 1929. They were painted in petrol-diluted paint, making the pigments very flat and more vulnerable. Made in 1992.
Duration: 30 mins

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