They pulled away from the French Academy, whose focus was on the ancient past, to produce a new style of painting set in the reality of a present full of people within natural settings and without ‘artifice or grandeur’, Detail: Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919) The Loge 1874 Oil on canvas 31 1/2 x 25 in. The decade occurred at the core period of the Second Industrial Revolution.The modern city as well as the sky-scraper rose to prominence in this decade as well, contributing to the economic prosperity of the time.

Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904) Édouard Manet 1867 Oil on canvas 46 5/16 x 35 7/16 in.

He was a consumate ‘drawer’ with a keen sense of natural light and importantly recorded the local tradies with their tops off scraping a timber floor, an image of urban life seldom recorded.
His fresh, quick brush strokes with touches of lapis lazuli blue and an acidic green caught the mobility of the moment in a continual vibration of color and vitality, which became one of the virtues of impressionism.

Artists such as Claude Monet (1840 – 1926), Édouard Manet (1832-1883), Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and the poet Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867) embraced la mode as the harbinger of la modernité. April 3, 1882: Outlaw Jesse James is shot and killed by Robert Ford.

This page was last edited on 8 February 2015, at 19:25. Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) Women in the Garden 1866 Oil on canvas 100 3/8 x 80 11/16 in.

Dear Monet as he was known to his friends, was the very incarnation of the painting style known as Impressionism. Zipernowsky, K., M. Déri and O. T. Bláthy, Nagy, Árpád Zoltán, "Lecture to Mark the 100th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Electron in 1897" (preliminary text), "Edward C. Whitman, "John Holland, Father of the modern Submarine". The extent to which artists responded to the dictates of fashion between the 1860s and 80’s is revealed in Claude Monet’s superb portrait of his future wife Camille as the Woman in The Green Dress.

Study for A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884 Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891) Oil on canvas 27 3/4 x 41 in.

From hats to corsets scenes of modern life of the 1870s and 1880’s depicted society in an ideal setting living in chic townhouses and occupying gilded opera boxes. Everyone of fashion wanted to be seen in the city: on the street, after church, at soirées, and at the theater wearing sumptuous silk day dresses.

Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) who showed his works at the Impressionist exhibition of 1876, combined aspects of the academic and Impressionist styles in a unique synthesis of style. A very ‘cool’ group of painters, they brought about a peaceful painterly French revolution of their own.

The modernisation that took place in Paris under Georges-Eugéne Haussmann (1809-1891) commenced in 1853. A rose always comes to mind when one speaks of Renoir. Black silk gowns brilliant conveyed the worldly elegance and sensuous élan of the times.

Paris She has been involved in the creative sector for over thirty years in Australia; completing interior design projects, creating and producing innovative corporate and not-for profit (social profit) community events.

The 1880s (pronounced "eighteen-eighties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1880, and ended on December 31, 1889. Ready to wear fashion arose out of the advent of the department store in the middle of the nineteenth century, including the founding of the department store Le Bon Marché, one of the best known in France.