IMPRESSIONISM

A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION BY:

Ar. Ruchi Arora

IMPRESSIONISM
The Word Impressionism means: AN IMPRESSION, MARK, EFFECT. Began as a loose association of Paris-based artists Began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s. Impressionism the term was coined by a Monet, a French Painter, who first painted a Painting: IMPRESSION SUNRISE. He painted Sunrise with dabs of color on canvas. It was the end of 19th Century

Claude Monets Impression Sunrise

The painting was shown at an exhibition of the Independents, some artists who were rebelling against the French governmentsponsored Salon. (The government decided which art would be exhibited.)

A critic thought that the painting by Monet, Impression: Sunrise looked unfinished and dismissed it as only an impression.

Impressionist style of painting is characterized by concentration on the general impression produced by a scene or object, the use of unmixed primary colors, and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light.

Characteristic of impressionist painting are visible brushstrokes, light colors, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, and unusual visual angles.

Surfaces of the paintings are textured with thick paint, a characteristic setting them apart from their predecessors

Compositions are simplified and innovative, and the emphasis is on overall effect rather than upon details.
Impressionist artists were not interested in painting in traditional ways.

Impressionist artists were not interested in painting in traditional ways.

They were interested in painting what was going on around them, as it was happening.

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IMPRESSIONIST PAINTERS: Monet Renoir Manet Berthe Morisot (woman painter) Degas

IMPRESSIONISM
douard Manet: (23 January 1832 30 April 1883) was a French painter. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia engendered great controversy, and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionismtoday these are considered watershed paintings that mark the genesis of modern art.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841 December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from the painter Rubens to Watteau".

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Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 5 December 1926) 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 or landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise.

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Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 27 September 1917) born HilaireGermain-Edgar Degas a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. A superb draughtsman, he is especially identified with the subject of the dance, and over half his works depict dancers. These display his mastery in the depiction of movement, as do his racecourse subjects and female nudes. His portraits are considered to be among the finest in the history of art. Early in his career, his ambition was to be a history painter, a calling for which he was well prepared by his rigorous academic training and close study of classic art. In his early thirties he changed course, and by bringing the traditional methods of a history painter to bear on contemporary subject matter, he became a classical painter of modern life.

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Berthe Morisot (January 14, 1841 March 2, 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. Undervalued for over a century, possibly because she was a woman, she is now considered among the first league of Impressionist painters.

POST- IMPRESSIONISM
This is also known as Neo-Impressionism, or New Impressionism 3 major artists: Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch, Holland) Paul Cezanne (French) Paul Gaugin (French)

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Vincent Van Gogh: spent his early adult life working for a firm of art dealers. After a brief spell as a teacher, he became a missionary worker in a very poor mining region. He did not embark upon a career as an artist until 1880. Initially, Van Gogh worked only with sombre colours, until he encountered Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism in Paris. He incorporated their brighter colours and style of painting into a uniquely recognizable style, which was fully developed during the time he spent at Arles, France. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life. Most of his best-known works were produced in the final two years of his life, during which time he cut off part of his left ear following a breakdown in his friendship with Paul Gauguin. After this he suffered recurrent bouts of mental illness, which led to his suicide.

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Paul Czanne (IPA: 19 January 1839 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Czanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. The line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Czanne "is the father of us all" cannot be easily dismissed.

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Czanne's work demonstrates a mastery of design, colour, composition and draftsmanship. His often repetitive, sensitive and exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields, at once both a direct expression of the sensations of the observing eye and an abstraction from observed nature. The paintings convey Czanne's intense study of his subjects, a searching gaze and a dogged struggle to deal with the complexity of human visual perception.

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Eugne Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 8 May 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential exponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms.

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CUBISM: SEE NATURE IN A CUBE PABLO PICASSO (SPANISH) HENRI MATISSE (FRENCH) GEORGES BRAQUE (FRENCH)

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