"School of Rebels: Teachers, Students, and the Revolution of Light in Impressionism" Lecture

"School of Rebels: Teachers, Students, and the Revolution of Light in Impressionism" Lecture

• When: Sunday, September 27, 2026, at 2:00 PM

• Format: Offline (Plato's Cave) + Online (Zoom)

• Duration: Up to 2 hours

• Recording: Yes, provided to all participants

• Language: Ukrainian

• Note: If you wish to receive only the lecture recording, please register via the "online participation" option.

September. Time to return to studies once again. But what if the greatest lessons in art history took place far beyond stuffy classrooms? In the second half of the 19th century, a group of daring young artists decided that the strict rules of the Academy and the polished classics of the Paris Salon no longer worked. They challenged the authority of their teachers, stepped out of their studios into the open air, and forever changed how humanity perceives the world.

We invite you to a deep and systematic dive into the anatomy of Impressionism: from initial academic strokes to the creation of a radically new visual language. We will explore how a movement featuring the primary geniuses of modernity crystallized out of generational conflict, private studios, friendship, and rivalry.

Key Topics Covered:

• How the Paris Salon functioned, why future rebels initially studied classical canons meticulously, and what triggered their break with tradition.

• How the invention of paint in tubes enabled plein-air painting, why impressionists abandoned the color black, and how the divided brushstroke technique works.

• The history of the movement from founders to radicals: Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Alfred Sisley, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, and Paul Gauguin.

• The history of Gleyre's Studio, Pissarro's role as the movement's chief mentor, the complex creative partnership between Degas and Cassatt, and Manet's controversial influence on the young guard.

Upon registration, you will be redirected to a Telegram group chat containing all necessary information.

Lecturer: Bohdana Nosenok — PhD in Cultural Studies, researcher of French cultural studies and the methodology of the Annales School of "new historical science," interdisciplinary approaches to cultural analysis, translator, and author of the travel novel Distance.