ImpressionismAn interactive PowerPoint lesson

created by Megan Sierz

for ED 205 (Winter 2008)

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Table of Contents What is Impressionism? Did you know…? Famous Impressionists:

– Monet– Renoir– Cassatt– Manet

Your turn…– Two Sisters (On the Terrace)– Bar at the Folies-Bergere– Nympheas (Water Lilies)– Woman With a Pearl Necklace in a Loge

Watch this… Sources

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About the Author Megan Sierz is currently a student at Grand

Valley State University, pursuing a degree in Education with an emphasis in Language Arts. She has an Associates in Arts from the Grand Rapids Community College and has worked at the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum for four years.

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What is Impressionism? Impressionism is an art style that first appeared in the late

1800’s in Europe This style came, in part, as a reaction to the invention of

the camera Impressionists were influenced by Japanese Art

(especially Japanese woodblocks) The main goal of Impressionists was to capture the world

around them--especially the modern and natural worlds Some famous Impressionists are: Claude Monet, Edouard

Manet, Mary Cassatt, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas

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Did you know…? Impressionists get their name from an early

painting by Claude Monet

Impression, Sunrise (1872-73)

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Famous Impressionists: Monet

Claude Monet’s paintings:

– Often are of nature scenes (Water and water lilies were his favorite)

– Capture natural light (He would paint the same scene during different parts of the day to capture the light in its many forms)

– Show a woman and boy (Monet’s wife Camille and son Jean)

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Famous Impressionists: Renoir Pierre Auguste Renoir’s paintings:

– Many times are portraits (Especially of women and children outdoors, children dressed in their best clothes)

– Show happily dancing couples– Have many people together – Show people with very fair skin and rosy

cheeks– Oil paints were a favored medium of Renoir

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Famous Impressionists: Cassatt Mary Cassatt’s paintings:

– Many times show a mother and child together

– Show a young woman with red hair (Mary’s own sister Lydia)

– Are of simple, everyday moments of home life

– Use pastels, which give a soft, fuzzy look to her pictures

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Famous Impressionists: Manet

Edouard Manet’s paintings:

– Often have women as their subject

– The women many times are nude and stare directly at the viewer

– Show people outdoors

– Are oil paintings

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Your turn…Now that you’ve read all about

Impressionist artists, can you identify which artist created these paintings?

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Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881Oil on Canvas

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Bar at the Folies-Bergere, 1881-82Oil on Canvas

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Nympheas (Water Lilies), 1908Oil on Canvas

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Woman With a Pearl Necklace in a Loge, 1879 Oil on Canvas

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Watch this… This video gives more information about

Impressionism…What do you think?

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QuickTime™ and aSorenson Video 3 decompressorare needed to see this picture.

Sources http://www.toffsworld.

com/art_artists_painters/images/claude_monet_sunrise.jpg (Impression Sunrise/Monet/1874)

http://www.romanceeverafter.com/images/Ahk50098.jpg (On the Terrace/Renoir/1881)

http://emptyeasel.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/lydiainloge,wearingapearlnecklacebymarycassatt.jpg (Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge/Cassatt/1879)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/images/multimedia/impressionism/manetfolies.jpg (A Bar at the Folie-Bergere/Manet/1882)

http://www.artquotes.net/masters/monet/water-lilies.jpg (Nympheas (Water-Lilies)/Monet/1908)

Impressionism. Arts4All. 2004.unitedstreaming. 19 April 2008http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/

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