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Impressionism and Post-impressionism

What is Impressionism?Impressionism started way back in the 19th century in Paris, France. The name of this movement comes from the title of Claude Monet’s work “Impression, Sunrise”

Introduction

What is Impressionism?

Characteristics

Techniques

Claude Monet

Video

Notable Artists

Wall Wisher

What’s Coming Up?

Your Turn!

Monet - Impression

CharacteristicsImpressionist paintings tend to have small, thin brush strokes with an emphasis on accuracy over precision. Light is also a significant factor and how it is captured is key to impressionist work.

Introduction

What is Impressionism?

Characteristics

Techniques

Claude Monet

Video

Notable Artists

Wall Wisher

What’s Coming Up?

Your Turn!

Monet - Stacks of Wheat

TechniquesShort, thick strokes of paint are used to quickly capture the essence of the subject, rather than its details.

Colours are applied side-by-side with as little mixing as possible,

Grays and dark tones are produced by mixing complementary colours. In pure Impressionism the use of black paint is avoided.

The play of natural light is emphasized. Close attention is paid to the reflection of colours from object to object.

In paintings made en plein air (outdoors), shadows are boldly painted with the blue of the sky as it is reflected onto surfaces, giving a sense of freshness and openness that was not captured in painting previously. (Blue shadows on snow inspired the technique.)

Introduction

What is Impressionism?

Characteristics

Techniques

Claude Monet

Video

Notable Artists

Wall Wisher

What’s Coming Up?

Your Turn!

Claude MonetClaude Monet is seen as the father of Impressionism. He was 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.

Introduction

What is Impressionism?

Characteristics

Techniques

Claude Monet

Video

Notable Artists

Wall Wisher

What’s Coming Up?

Your Turn!

Girl with the Parasol

Saint Lazare Station

In the late years, Monet devoted

himself to painting the exquisite

gardens and water lily ponds he created

at his home in Giverny

Other Notable Artists

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Frédéric Bazille

Gustave Caillebotte Mary Cassatt

Introduction

What is Impressionism?

Characteristics

Techniques

Claude Monet

Video

Notable Artists

Wall Wisher

What’s Coming Up?

Your Turn!

Edgar Degas

Renoir

Luncheon at the Boating Party

Post-impressionism

Postimpressionism, movement in late-19th-century

French painting that emphasized the artist’s personal

response to a subject.

Postimpressionists focused on emotional or spiritual

meanings that the subject might convey.

Postimpressionists conveyed their personal

responses to the world around them through the use

of strong, unnatural colors and exaggeration or slight

distortion of forms.

Seurat

Cezanne

The Starry Night

Van Gogh

Café Terrace on the

Place du Forum,

Arles, at Night

The bold colors

heighten the contrast

between the inviting

glow of the café and

the darkness of the

streets and the late-

night sky. Van

Gogh’s thick, heavy

brush strokes,

typical of this period,

create an expressive

mood

He remained in the Tropics for the rest of his life, first in

Tahiti and later in the Marquesas Islands. The essential

characteristics of his style changed little in the South Seas;

he retained the qualities of expressive color, denial of

perspective, and thick, flat forms.

Gaugin