Monet, Dreyfus, And The End Of Impressionism

Saul Jay Singer

5 Tevet 5776 – December 17, 2015

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With all friendship, Claude Monet

After twelve years of unrest, the Dreyfus Affair ended and France’s anti-Semitic fervor subsided, but the Impressionist movement was damaged beyond repair. The affair polarized the Impressionists, forced old tensions to the surface, and incited new arguments such that political differences finally triumphed over shared aesthetics, forcing a change in artistic trends and ending the era of the Impressionists.

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Saul Jay Singer

Saul Jay Singer serves as senior legal ethics counsel with the District of Columbia Bar and is a collector of extraordinary original Judaica documents and letters. He welcomes comments at at [email protected].