From Daumier to Degas: French Nineteenth-Century Prints
Feb 19, 2011 - Jul 17, 2011
The works of French nineteenth-century printmakers strike us with their extraordinary variety. From the Romantics to the post-Impressionists, many artists embraced printmaking techniques with great enthusiasm for experimentation. Not unlike the drawing, these processes enabled them to create authentic expressions of their artistic individuality.
Lithography, which had been invented just before 1800, played a central role. Especially impressive are Delacroix鈥檚 night-pieces and Daumier鈥檚 caricatures as well as Manet鈥檚 haunting scenes and Toulouse-Lautrec鈥檚 posters. Bresdin, Corot, Pissarro, and Degas took the etching, a technique for the creation of original prints that already looked back on a long tradition rooted in the work of Rembrandt, to new heights.
Lithography, which had been invented just before 1800, played a central role. Especially impressive are Delacroix鈥檚 night-pieces and Daumier鈥檚 caricatures as well as Manet鈥檚 haunting scenes and Toulouse-Lautrec鈥檚 posters. Bresdin, Corot, Pissarro, and Degas took the etching, a technique for the creation of original prints that already looked back on a long tradition rooted in the work of Rembrandt, to new heights.
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The works of French nineteenth-century printmakers strike us with their extraordinary variety. From the Romantics to the post-Impressionists, many artists embraced printmaking techniques with great enthusiasm for experimentation. Not unlike the drawing, these processes enabled them to create authentic expressions of their artistic individuality.
Lithography, which had been invented just before 1800, played a central role. Especially impressive are Delacroix鈥檚 night-pieces and Daumier鈥檚 caricatures as well as Manet鈥檚 haunting scenes and Toulouse-Lautrec鈥檚 posters. Bresdin, Corot, Pissarro, and Degas took the etching, a technique for the creation of original prints that already looked back on a long tradition rooted in the work of Rembrandt, to new heights.
Lithography, which had been invented just before 1800, played a central role. Especially impressive are Delacroix鈥檚 night-pieces and Daumier鈥檚 caricatures as well as Manet鈥檚 haunting scenes and Toulouse-Lautrec鈥檚 posters. Bresdin, Corot, Pissarro, and Degas took the etching, a technique for the creation of original prints that already looked back on a long tradition rooted in the work of Rembrandt, to new heights.
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