IMPRESSIONISTS IN LONDON
IMPRESSIONISTS IN LONDON French Painters in Exile Do not be surprised, as I was, Impressionists in London. "The title is misleading - it would be more accurate to use its subtitle," French Artists in Exile, 1870-1904, "but certainly Impressionists sell more tickets. No matter, it is still an extremely interesting exhibition that is worth seeing. The show starts out as a sort of illustrated history lesson, setting the stage for many people in London to escape the horrors of the four-month Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War (July 1870-January) 1871), during which starring Parisians were forced to eat pets, rats, and zoo animals, and the uprising that followed the city of Paris set up a left-wing government known as the Commune, which was soon viciously crushed by the national government (not the first time in Paris) in a bloody massacre or some 20,000 of the Parisian upstarts. Many of the city's monuments, including the Tuileries Palace and the Hô...
