This course aims to reconnect with the most radical and experimental energies of artists such as Manet, Monet, Degas, Morisot and Pissarro. Participants will examine ways they produced a new embodied vision of a fast changing and modernising world. It also celebrates the ways the implications of this new subjective way of perceiving the world was taken up and developed by a younger generation of artists including Bonnard, Vuillard, Van Gogh, Cezanne and Gauguin.