{"id":470,"date":"2024-10-01T07:12:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T07:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cerulebeetle.com\/?p=470"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:06:14","slug":"the-impressionists-were-no-different-from-street-artists-spray-painting-graffiti-on-a-wall-an-interview-with-alex-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerulebeetle.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/01\/the-impressionists-were-no-different-from-street-artists-spray-painting-graffiti-on-a-wall-an-interview-with-alex-face\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Impressionists Were No Different from Street Artists Spray-Painting Graffiti on a Wall”: An Interview with Alex Face"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s been 150 years since Impressionism transformed our world and how we perceive it. On April 15, 1874, a collective of upstarts including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot and Paul C\u00e9zanne converged on the Paris studio of photographer F\u00e9lix Nadar for a group show that art critic Louis Leroy sardonically dubbed \u201cThe Exhibition of the Impressionists\u201d \u2014 a jab at Monet\u2019s \u201cImpression: soleil levant,\u201d the painter\u2019s dreamlike depiction of the port city of Le Havre.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been 150 years since Impressionism transformed our world and how we perceive it. On April 15, 1874, a collective of upstarts including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot and Paul C\u00e9zanne converged on the Paris studio of photographer F\u00e9lix Nadar for a group show that art critic Louis Leroy sardonically dubbed \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerulebeetle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerulebeetle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerulebeetle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerulebeetle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerulebeetle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cerulebeetle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/cerulebeetle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerulebeetle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerulebeetle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerulebeetle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerulebeetle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}