We've explored how Courbet, Manet, Monet and the Impressionists challenged the status quo in a short period of time....
But then in came Cezanne with a bang.
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Modern Olympia is a reinterpretation of Manet's Olympia, which had caused such a scandal 10 years prior.
The painting marks a shift from Impressionism to post-Impressionism.
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Cezanne retained the subject of a courtesan, but his colours are more vibrant, more delirious and more "modern" than the Impressionists.
The painting was slammed by critics as the work of a madman.
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For Renoir, however, it was a masterpiece.
Indeed it was one of the first examples of an artist breaking away from the new style of Impressionism and paving the way for a new movement - post Impressionism.
