Deborah Robin, Ed.D.: Art Historian and Ceramic Artist
Monday, November 10, 2025,
**2:45 pm – 3:45 pm,
ASA Great Room and Zoom
Deborah Robin, a recent and well received speaker at Academy Village, will reveal how Impressionist artists broke from the classical tradition of creating, realistic paintings with precise details. Instead, artists like Monet, Renoir, Cassette and Degas painted outdoors, capturing fleeting moments of light, and using visible brushstrokes rather than the smooth, polished style that had dominated art for centuries. At first critics and the public jeered at and mocked the new style, finding it to be vulgar, unfinished, and rough. Now, however, those same Impressionist paintings are among the most popular and valued of all time. The presentation includes many visual examples as well as the stories behind some of the most famous and notorious Impressionist masterpieces. The rebellion started by the Impressionists marks the very beginning of modern art.
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