Dover Lifetime Learning offers course on Impressionism COURTESY OF DOVER LIFETIME LEARNING The Friends of the Dover Council on Aging, with support of the Dover Council on Aging, are sponsoring the following three-part Lifetime Learning series: Painters of Modern Life: Transatlantic Impressionism Thursdays, 1:30-3 p.m., May 13, 20 and 27. Cost is $30. Classes conducted on Zoom: Instructions on how to join these meetings will be e-mailed to participants. Course Description: Throughout the history of art, artists have painted modern life. So, why, when we use the term “painters of modern life” do we usually think of the Impressionism movement? This three-session course aims to examine that question, working from the presumption that when the 19th-century Impressionists focused on modern life they did so as part of a concerted effort to not only reject traditional subject matter but also traditional artistic goals, techniques, and approaches to the marketplace. We will lay the groundwork by looking at elements of modernity that came to the fore in Europe in the centuries that preceded the Impressionists. We will then zero in on the birthplace of Impressionism – France – and will consider French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Finally, we will look at the ways in which these European movements traveled across the Atlantic to become American Impressionism.