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Visual Narrative: Monochrome – Impressionists on Paper exhibition, Royal Academy, 9th March 2024

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Things I took away from this exhbition:

  • Different ways artists used both wet and dry materials on paper – but I was looking more at the use of dry materials e.g. pastels
  • Working with the textures of the paper
  • Different ways of creating tone, showing light and shadow
  • I particularly love the Degas ‘Woman Combing Her Hair’ for the way he’s really captured the movement. The places where he’s redrawn the lines, e.g. her arm and knee – even if that was just him correcting himself, it really feels like you can see her moving. It looks like frames of an animation layered on top of each other
Albert Lebourg, ‘The Artist’s Wife and Mother-in-law Reading a Letter by Candlelight’, c.1878-79
Edgar Degas, ‘Ludovic Halevy Finds Madame Cardinal in the Dressing Room, 1876-77
Edouard Manet, ‘The Rue Mosnier in the Rain, 1878
Jean-Louis Forain, ‘Walk in the Snow’ (detail), c. 1885-88
Edgar Degas, ‘A Seated Jockey, Facing Right’, c. 1880-82
Guiseppe de Nittis, ‘In the Cab’, 1880-83
Edgar Degas, ‘Dancer Seen from Behind’, c. 1873
Jean-Louis Forain, ‘Dance Card’ (detail), c.1888
Paul Cezanne, ‘Academic Study of a Male Nude with His Right hand Clenched Across His Chest’ (detail), c. 1867-70
Georges Seurat, ‘The Gleaner’, c.1882
Paul Signac, ‘Woman Sewing (Study for ‘The Milliners’), 1885
George Seurat, ‘Seated Youth, Study for ‘Bathers at Asnieres’ 1883
Vincent Van Gogh, ‘Peasant Woman Carrying Wheat in Her Apron’ (detail), July-August 1885
Vincent Van Gogh, ‘Thisles by the Roadside’, August 1888
Armand Guillaumin, ‘Interior’ (detail), 1889
Vincent Van Gogh, ‘Thatched Roofs’ (detail), 1884
Henri-Edmond Cross, ‘Le Lavandou’ c. 1898
Edgar Degas, ‘Woman Combing Her Hair’, c. 1887-90
Odilon Redon, ‘Ophelia Among the Flowers’ (detail), c. 1905-08
Odilon Redon, ‘Christ Crowned with Thorns’ (detail), 1895