The Impressionists

A true maverick of his day, Edouard Manet became a father figure to the Impressionist movement because of his stand against the restrictions and conventions of the French salon.

Footage from L'Orangerie and from Monet’s house and gardens at Giverny plus special film shot at London’s Savoy Hotel, from where Monet painted his famous views of London.

Pierre August Renoir’s brilliant Le Moulin de la Galette created immense controversy in its day, famous for his use of hot reds, orange and gold to portray nudes in sunlight.

Profoundly influenced by the Renaissance painters, Hilaire Degas pioneered precision of line and the use of the human form in space within the Impressionist school.

Camille Pissarro was a West-Indian born leader of the original Impressionists and the only artist from that school to exhibit at all eight of the exhibitions from 1874 to 1886.

Georges Pierre Seurat is the inventor of Pointillism, a technique in which a whole picture is made up of tiny rectangles of pure color, which merge together when viewed from afar.