BY KAREN BOSSICK
“Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1875” will be screened at The Community Library in Ketchum on Wednesday, May 14.
The free screening will take place rom 5:30 to 7 p.m.
The film describes how The Impressionists—now the most popular group in art history—were scorned, penniless and ridiculed when they introduced their new style to the people of Pais.
The film explores what led them to break free of the rules to hold their first radical exhibition in 1874, now considered the birth of the French art movement.
It also offers a glimpse at the major exhibition that the Musee d’Orsay, Paris and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. curated 150 years later.
The exhibition included groundbreaking works from Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Eugène Boudin, Frédéric Bazille, Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour and Auguste Lançon.
Advance registration is recommended at https://thecommunitylibrary.libcal.com/event/14454115