Bridge Over the Abyss. Impressionists and the 20th Century

The history of impressionism, which has forever influenced all subsequent art, spans just 12 years: from the first exhibition in 1874, where the famous "Impression" was presented, to the last, eighth, exhibition in 1886. Édouard Manet and Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin – whose stories begin this book – were among the first to oppose the conventions of the "classical" painting that had formed by that time. Vincent Van Gogh and Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso and Kazimir Malevich, in contrast to their predecessors, created their own reality on canvases. They did not try to convey to the viewer the impression – the beauty of everyday reality and to communicate what the eye sees at a specific moment. In the journey from impressionism to surrealism, from impression to emotion, from the Venus de Milo to the "Black Square", Paola Dmitrievna Volkova invites us in the next volume of the series "Bridge Over the Abyss". This publication is a revised cycle of "Bridge Over the Abyss" in the form in which it was conceived by Paola Dmitrievna – in historical-chronological order. It will also include unpublished lectures from her personal archive.