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IMPRESSIONISMIn painting . History . Characteristic . Painters .

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Click icon to add pictureImpressionism can be

considered the first distinctly modern

movement in painting 

A New Movement rebel artists of the 1870s refused

to conform to the rigid academic standards of painting 

their work was not accepted at Paris' sole art exhibition, the

Salon

so, they struck out on their own and started a new movement in

the art world

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Art critic Louis Leroy came up with

the name 'Impressionist'

critiquing the 1874 exhibit, he remarked

that the artists' paintings looked

unfinished, like they were just sketches or impressions rather

than completed works of art

A New Movement A New Name

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A New Movement A New Name

Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), 1872, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

This painting became the source of the movement's name, after Louis Leroy's article The Exhibition of the Impressionists declared that the painting was at most, a sketch

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CHARACTERISTICS

 outdoor En Plain

Air Painting

characterized by rapid,

spontaneous and loose

brushstrokes Monet, Water Lilies, 1919

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CHARACTERISTICS

representation of light and its

reflection

 the realistic depiction of light; Impressionist

artists sought to capture fleeting

momentsMonet, Impression, Sunrise , 1873

The Impressionists sought to capture the former - the optical effects of light - to convey the passage of time, changes in weather, and other shifts in the atmosphere in their canvases

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CHARACTERISTICS

use of color separating colors

and letting the eye's perception

mix them

 the realistic depiction of light; Impressionist

artists sought to capture fleeting

momentsRenoir, The Skiff (La Yole), 1875

he places an orange boat against cobalt blue water. Orange and blue were understood to be opposite one another in the colour spectrum, and by placing them next to each other, each looked deeper and brighter.

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CHARACTERISTICS

painting quickly appearance of quickly painted

surfaces

Monet, The Beach at Trouville, 1870

 The Beach at Trouville is a small picture, painted by Monet while

he was on honeymoon on the Channel coast. He and his wife

Camille were on their way to London to escape the Franco-Prussian war

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CHARACTERISTICS

modern life as the subject

matter

Degas, The Beach Scene, 1869

Modern life and the way that ordinary people spent their free time were popular subjects with

many Impressionist painters

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FAMOUS IMPRESSIONIST

was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape

painting

The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression,

Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and

his associates as an alternative to the Salon de ParisOscar-Claude Monet 

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This painting raised a storm of criticism and gave its name to

the movement. The Impressionism was born. 

Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1873 

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This work was in the collection of the Havemeyers, who considered Monet the greatest impressionist landscape painter.

At the turn of the century, Monet became the most popular impressionist painter in the

United States

Claude Monet ,The Waterlily Pond, 1897 

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This woman with an umbrella painted against the light is Camille, Monet's wife,

and their son Jean

Claude Monet ,The Walk, Woman with a Parasol, 1875 

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Claude Monet ,The Magpie, 1869 Claude Monet ,Irises in Monet’s Garden, 1900

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 a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style

Renoir's work seems always to be about pleasurable occasions, and reveals no great seriousness in his

subjects.

He is a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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 remains the best known and most popular work of art at

The Phillips Collection

 The painting captures an idyllic atmosphere as Renoir's friends

share food, wine, and conversation on a balcony

overlooking the Seine at the Maison Fournaise restaurant in

Chatou

Renoir,Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-81 

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It has been described as "one of the museum's most beloved

works“

The work depicts two of Renoir's friends, Suzanne Valadon and Paul Auguste Llhote

Renoir ,Dance at Bougival, 1883

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Like other works of Renoir's early maturity, Bal du moulin de la Galette is a

typically Impressionist snapshot of real life. It shows a richness of form, a fluidity of brush

stroke, and a flickering light

The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. Working class Parisians would dress up

and spend time there dancing, drinking, and eating galettes into the evening

Renoir, Bal du moulin de la Galette, 1876 (Dance at Le moulin de la Galette)

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MASTERPIECERenoir , Lise Sewing, 1866 Renoir , In Summer, 1868

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He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict

dancers. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he rejected the term,

preferring to be called a realist

His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and for their portrayal of human isolation

Edgar Degas

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MASTERPIECEDegas, Blue Dancers, 1899 Degas, The Dance Class,

1873-76

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Degas ,A Cotton Office in New Orleans, 1873 Degas, Dancers in Pink, 1880-85

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Degas , Ballet Rehearsal, 1873 Degas , Young Spartans Exercising, 1860

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Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist

exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. He "acted as a father figure not only to the

Impressionists" but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, including Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, 

Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.

Camille Pissarro

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Pissarro, Le Boulevard de Montmartre, 1897 Pissarro, Landscape at Chaponval,1880

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Pissarro, The Wheelbarrow, Orchard, 1881 Pissarro, The Garden at Pontoise,1874

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He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to

painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors)

an English Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France

Alfred Sisley

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Sisley, Flood at Port-Marly, 1876 Sisley, Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, 1872

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Sisley, View of the Canal Saint-Martin, 1870 Sisley, Small Meadows in Spring, 1880

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 Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which Bazille placed the subject figure within a landscape

painted en plein air

Jean Frédéric Bazille

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Bazille, The Pink Dress, 1864

Bazille, View of the Village,1868

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Bazille, Summer Scene, 1869

Bazille, Landscape at Chailly,1865

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The Impressionists aimed to capture the momentary, sensory effect of a scene - the impression

objects made on the eye in a fleeting instant.

To achieve this effect, many Impressionist artists moved from the

studio to the streets and countryside, painting en plein air. Impressionism

Techniques

- They tended toward bright, pure colors that seemed to jump off the

canvas in their boldness and strike the viewer with

their intensity

- used short, quick brushstrokes that touched colors to the canvas in little

comma-like shapes one after another

- sometimes, they didn't bother to use a brush at all, applying paint to the canvas directly from the

tube


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