WHAT IMPRESSIONISM IS!

By: Rebecca Janssen

THE WORD IMPRESSIONISM IS DEFINED AS: At the free dictionary. com: 1. often Impressionism A theory or style of painting originating and developed in France during the 1870s, characterized by concentration on the immediate visual impression produced by a scene and by the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light. At dictionary. com: a style of painting developed in the last third of the 19th century, characterized chiefly by short brush strokes of bright colors in immediate juxtaposition to represent the effect of light on objects. I think it is a style that artists use to try to represent it

as a picture not so much as a painting and to bring out the lighting and texture.

SOME EXAMPLES: Notice this painting

is used with small brush strokes.

This is used with the same style.

SOME FRENCH ARTISTS ARE: Frédéric Bazille

Eugène BoudinFélix BracquemondMarie BracquemondMary CassattGustave CaillebottePaul Cézanne*Gustave ColinEdgar DegasJean-Louis ForainPaul Gauguin*Eva GonzalèsArmand GuillauminStanislas LépineEdouard Manet**Claude MonetBerthe MorisotCamille Pissarro

HOW IT IMPACTS AMERICA It impacts everyone as a element of human

perception and experience. How it impacts us from France is almost always fascinating also it effects everyone differently. This happens due to your opinion and how you view things.