He gradually began to reject the genteel traditions of academic painting and impressionism, and turned his attention to urban realist subjects executed in a bold, painterly style. [https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/horo_henri.shtm] | He gradually began to reject the genteel traditions of academic painting and impressionism, and turned his attention to urban realist subjects executed in a bold, painterly style. [https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/horo_henri.shtm] |