30 key paintings of the great impressionists are as to how paint and color effects were achieved. Details are blown up for easy reference. Includes Pissaro, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Suerat and more.
I love how the author discusses a painting, then breaks it down into specific focus areas to discuss painting techniques and color mixing theory. Very helpful to a novice oil painter.
So let me just say that this is a superb and brilliantly illuminating book, a granular formal and technical study of the whole of 19th century painting (not only Impressionism) — as it studies the aims and techniques of the pre-Impressionists as well as that of the Neo-Impressionists.