An ‘extraordinary change’ in the Climate: The Transformative Power of Impressionism in George Moore’s Art Criticism by Fabienne Gaspari

“…Oscar Wilde’s essay ‘The Decay of Lying’ introduces the idea of the transformative power of Impressionist painting, ‘this extraordinary change that has taken place in the climate of London’. Another Anglo-Irish writer, George Moore, underlined in his art criticism written in the 1880s and 1890s the radical transformations brought about by this pictorial movement. …”
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