Impressionisty: izbrannye pis'ma s eskizami i nabroskami - Renuar P., Mone O., Pissarro K., Sislei A. Dega E.

Today it is difficult to imagine a person who would not like painting Degas, Monet, Sisley, Renoir or Pissarro. Meanwhile, in their lifetime they were called crazy, ridiculous, just not able to draw. Their paintings were criticized for negligence and senselessness, refused to exhibit in salons. Driven by the desire to capture life itself as an endless series of impressions, they not only became revolutionaries in painting, but also found themselves completely devoid of earnings people. The collection includes selected letters from the masters of Impressionism. In them, those who need the support of the master share their impressions of art and the humiliating time of deprivation. Letters are surrounded by the most famous works of masters, as well as sketches and sketches to these paintings, which allows the reader to fully feel the genius of the Impressionists and understand how these virtuosos thought and felt.