How the Impressionists found a new way of capturing the remarkable in everyday life

Craig Raine | New Statesman | 5th March 2015

The Impressionist exhibition at the National Gallery in London has been referenced previously. Here is an entirely different perspective, one that focuses on tell-tale details in the paintings that illustrate what the impressionists were really about. “In the contemporary popular mind the impressionists are primarily thought to be pretty – the painterly equivalent of easy listening. Which is a big mistake.”