Student Drawing & Painting Impressionist Work to form part of End of Year Show exhibition.

As the much anticipated Pierre Bonnard Painting Exhibition opens in the Tate Modern, the Sutton College Art Department are proud to share some of our Drawing & Painting students’ work.

These paintings are inspired by the Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Movements that also informed the work of Bonnard & his contemporaries.

Impressionism was a movement known for its paintings that aimed to depict the transience of light, and to capture scenes of modern life and the natural world in their ever-shifting conditions.

Radicals in their time, early impressionists violated the rules of academic painting. These painters changed the relationship of the viewer to painting from that of passive acceptance of political or religious content to an active participation in the creation of meaning through the activation of memory and personal experience.

Our students and tutors across the department never fail to surprise and delight with the quality and ambition of the work that they make. These paintings and much, much more will be on display in the Art & Craft End of Year Show opening in the first week of June 2019 in the Gallery on the 2^nd floor of Sutton Library.

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Find out more about the Pierre Bonnard Exhibition at Tate Modern