Revolutionary Impressionism: More than Pretty Pictures

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This year (2024) is the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1874. Today, exhibitions of French Impressionist paintings are guaranteed blockbusters. But why are they important and how were they received 150 years ago? You’ll love beautiful canvases by Monet, Degas, Pissarro, and others even more when you understand what they tell us about a rapidly changing world, shifting societal mores, and new technologies.

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Cate O’Hara fell in love with Impressionism as a sixth-grader on a field to the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Cincinnati since 2013. Besides leading the organization, she occasionally moderates a popular poetry writing workshop or gives a talk on art history. Previously, she worked for 25 years at Cincinnati’s Taft Museum of Art in a variety of roles including publications management. She holds undergraduate degrees from Illinois State University and a master’s degree in English at Berkeley.