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Impressionism
By Rachana Sudhaman
A1-501
Impressionism
An art movement developed in France in the 1870-1890s
- Started by radical painters who rejected the traditionalist Academie des Beaux-Art.
- Named so by a Parisian art critic- Louis Leroy.
Impression- Le Soleil Levant (The Rising Sun) by Claude Monet,1872
CHARACTERISTICS OF
IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS
Emphasis on the general impression produced by a scene or an object.
Armand Guillaumin Sunset at Ivry (Soleil couchant à Ivry) 1873,
Rejection of established styles.
Claude Monet, The Cliff at Étretat after the Storm, 1885
In the Voorhees Garden by Matilda Brown 1914
Rejection of established styles.
Play of light expressed in bright & varied use of color.
The cradle by Berthe Morrisot,1872
The boating by Eduard Manet 1874
Short brush strokes. The colors remained unmixed.
Freely brushed colors took precedence over lines and contours.
The Japanese Bridge by Claude Monet
The overall visual effect was more important than the visual details- the colors were not blended smoothly.
Water Lilies by Monet
Use of unmixed primary colors
Allee of Chestnut trees Alfred Sisley
Rather than neutral whites, grays and blacks, colors were used for the shadows.
Manet, Le Grand Canal
Incorporation of new ideas, technology and depictions of modern life
Train in the Snow by Claude Monet
Gustave Caillebotte, (1848–1894), Paris Street on a rainy day, 1877
History
Voiliers devant Trouville by Eugene Boudin
• Founders• Eugene
Boudin• Stanislas
Lepin• Jongkind
• Influenced the future impressionists
• Started the tradition of painting “en plien air”
• Need to break out of the limitations set forth by traditionalists
• Rejection of Eduard Manet’s “Dejeuner sur l’Herbe” by Salon of the Academie de Beaux-Arts
• Salon des Refusees
• Franco-Prussian War• Pissarro, Monet, Sisley move to
London
Other Influences
En Plein air (in open air)
On the terrace by Pierre Auguste Renoir
The Hay Harvest at Eragny by Camille Pissarro
• Influence of the spontaneity of Photography
Lady in the boat by Edmund Greacam
Trouville by Eugene Boudin 1864
Bridging the Lieutenant by Harry Hoffman
Japanese Woodblock Prints• The space and
depth using perspective
Some important Impressionist painters
Claude Monet• His style of
painting light through color
• Painting in the open air.
• Lyrical composition of a vision
Colorful sensations
The Dance class by Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas• Remained influenced
by traditional styles• Work in progress
from a new perspective. Painted the working class people- Dancers, circus artistes etc…
Ballet Dancers at the bar
At the milliners shop
Eduard Manet
• Photographic depictions
• Challenged the renaissance e style
• Retained his distinctive use of black.
• Paintings of urban upper class life.
Still life with Melon and peaches
Impressionist Music
• Started in France
• musical impressionism focuses on a suggestion and an atmosphere rather than on a strong emotion or the depiction of a story as in program music
• Use of whole tone scales or dissonance.
• Exploration of the “Fantasy of sound”.
• Concentration on the individual, unusual features of each instrument and use of rarely applied registers
• Charles Debussy used the suggestions like ‘similarly to flute’, ‘from a distance’ …
• Pink Floyd – modern Rock Band
Impressionist Literature
• Prose, poetry & other literary works
• Works relied heavily on associations• Stream of consciousness.
• An author centres his story/attention on the character's mental life
• Portrayal from an explicitly subjective point of view on reality
• Also referred as Symbolism/Surrealism • Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Henry James, Virginia
Woolf.
Neo –Impressionism• From 1880s• Different
percepts for use of color, pattern, form, line.
• Pointillism• Pissarro,
Cezanne, Van-gogh
Children on a farm by Camille Pissarro 1887
The Scream by Vincent Van-Gogh
Starry night by Vincent Van-Gogh
The Card Players by Cezanne1892
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