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Modern Painting

Author
George Moore
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
7 hours 26 minutes
ISBN
9781802565959
Published
5 May 2025
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • 19th Century
  • Art Evolution
  • Impressionism
  • Individual Expression
  • Aesthetics
  • Philosophies
  • Modern Art
  • Artistic Revolution
  • Keen Observations
  • Passionate Prose

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George Moore’s essays on modern painting track Impressionism and the turn toward individual vision, reading painters with a critic’s eye and a working writer’s passion. Aesthetics, studio politics, and the thrill of new seeing fill pages meant for people who care how pictures change. Spoken as usable art talk when you want the revolution of the canvas named without a dry textbook march through names and dates.

Author

George Moore (1852–1933) was the Irish novelist who brought French naturalism into English fiction and never quite stopped arguing with Ireland about it. Trained among the painters and writers of Paris, he wrote of art, desire, and the stubborn facts of ordinary life — servants, theatres, and consciences under pressure. Esther Waters remains his most durable novel: a story of a working woman's endurance told without Victorian flinch.

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