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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

The Impressionists and Photography

Oct 15, 2019 – Jan 26, 2020
Paseo del Prado, 8, 28014 Madrid, Spain

This is where things get technical. With the advent of photographic printing, young Impressionist painters like Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas developed a new way of looking at the world: as the camera would. The asymmetry and ambiguity of its images, its chemical record of light, excited these artists. Simultaneously, photographers were working to capture the painterly effects of the Impressionists. This exhibition probes an evolving relationship between two mediums. —J.V.

Claude Monet, “Waves Breaking,” 1881. Photo courtesy of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Prentis Cobb Hale.