Last night I went to the reception for the DMA's new exhibit "The Lens of Impressionism" and I came away extremely inspired. The show flowed seamlessly with a mixture of photography and paintings, there were a few etchings spread throughout the exhibit but they were hard to distinguish from the photography, unless you looked at the description. The photographs of Le Grey and Edouard Manet were breath taking although extremely different. Le Grey focused on finding strong contrast between the sky and the sea, developing his own technique of combining two separate images to create a stronger contrast. Contrasting Le Grey were the loose fluid strokes of Manet, that perfectly captured the essence of a day on the beach in On the Beach, Boulogne-sur-Mer. The lack of faces on the female bathers adds to the spontaneity of the piece.
Lighthouse and Jetty, Le Havre, Gustave Le Grey
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