{"id":499161,"date":"2026-03-28T00:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/499161\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T00:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:08:14","slug":"ruth-leon-recommends-ending-the-impressionist-era-on-a-stunning-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/499161\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Leon recommends&#8230;Ending The Impressionist Era on A Stunning High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>March 27, 2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Waldemar Januszczak\u2019s documentaries for the BBC Perspective\u00a0series are always good value. This episode takes a closer look at the latter years of Impressionism. Waldemar looks in considerable depth at the work of\u00a0Georges Seurat.<\/p>\n<p>There is also an insight into the complex but fascinating world of optics and art.<br \/>Also featured is\u00a0Van Gogh\u2019s time in Paris, charting his journey from brown and dull canvases to the splendid colour and light we find more familiar.<a style=\"color: #ff00ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/Ruthleon.substack.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht March 27, 2026 \u00a0Waldemar Januszczak\u2019s documentaries for the BBC Perspective\u00a0series are always good value. This episode&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,175522,56,54,55,53669],"class_list":{"0":"post-499161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-georges-seurat","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-van-gogh"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}