At the National Institute of Clinical Research, vice president of clinical operations Dr. Mark Paskewitz supports a variety of clinical studies. In his leisure time, Dr. Mark Paskewitz enjoys the work of Impressionist painters such as Edouard Manet and Postimpressionist painters such as Paul Cezanne.

In the second half of the 1800s, France produced two of the world’s most influential painting schools: Impressionism and Postimpressionism. The former began around 1860 and lasted until the end of the century. Impressionism is characterized by a rejection of the then-prevailing academic style in favor of a new style that captured the ephemeral shifts in motion and light as experienced in real time.

Claude Monet, an iconic Impressionist painter, often painted the same scene over and over in sequences, with each addition to the sequence reflecting different conditions of light and mood. His famous water lily sequence, which he painted in his own garden, includes roughly 250 canvases.

As Impressionism broke with the academic style, Postimpressionism broke with the Impressionist style in approximately 1880. Postimpressionists such as Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh turned away from vicissitudes in the vein of natural light, opting instead to emphasize symbolic meaning and bold colors.