False Impressionism? The Tate’s Impressionism in London
The consensus of art critics’
reviews of this exhibition has been pretty damning. Essentially, they say, the
Tate is guilty of using the catnip label of “Impressionists” to lure the public
to an exhibition of mainly mediocre works by mainly mediocre French artists,
among which motley crowd lurk a few works of quality by genuine Impressionists
(mainly Monet and Pissarro).