. Art in France. FIC. IIKNNER. IBVL. (Tlie Luxembourg, Paris.) NATURALISM. into his unctuous colour. But in hispainting hght produced by opposi-tions of black and white is replacedby a vivid polychromy. About the year 1 875, while Manetwas still living, certain painters in-vented a new process. ClaudeMonet and his disciples, Sisley,Pissarro, Renoir, and even Manethimself, form a well defined group,because they had a common aim,and attained it by similar means;a polemical incident gave them thename of Impressionists. Courbetand Manet had failed to render thebrilliance and delicacy of ligh
. Art in France. FIC. IIKNNER. IBVL. (Tlie Luxembourg, Paris.) NATURALISM. into his unctuous colour. But in hispainting hght produced by opposi-tions of black and white is replacedby a vivid polychromy. About the year 1 875, while Manetwas still living, certain painters in-vented a new process. ClaudeMonet and his disciples, Sisley,Pissarro, Renoir, and even Manethimself, form a well defined group,because they had a common aim,and attained it by similar means;a polemical incident gave them thename of Impressionists. Courbetand Manet had failed to render thebrilliance and delicacy of light, be-cause their only method had been f;the opposition of light and dark,black and white. But although thepainter has no real light on hispalette, he has colours as vivid as thosemasters, Rubens, Turner and Delacroix, the play of light and shade may be adequately translated by a playof colours. Physicists have taught us that a ray of sunshine, passingthrough a prism, is decomposed into three pure colours, yellow, red,and blue, which mingle at their confines and form three co
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