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Impressionism

Impressionism. Visual Art. Impressionism. Shows the effects of light and atmospheric conditions Spontaneously captures a moment of time Expresses reality in different ways. Impressionist Background. Photography challenges This divergence away from photographic realism

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Impressionism

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  1. Impressionism Visual Art

  2. Impressionism • Shows the effects of light and atmospheric conditions • Spontaneously captures a moment of time • Expresses reality in different ways

  3. Impressionist Background • Photography challenges • This divergence away from photographic realism • Many Impressionists painted pleasant scenes of middle class urban life, extolling the leisure time that the industrial revolution had won for middle class society.

  4. New Style • Paris painters work together and show together • Claude Monet, • August Renoir, • Edgar Degas, • Berthe Morisot, • Mary Cassatt • They became known as Impressionists because a newspaper critic thought they were painting mere sketches or impressions.

  5. Impressionism “How-To” • Paint in “comma” strokes • Sketch, don’t polish • Don’t mix colors • Use intense colors & let the viewer's eye mix the colors.

  6. Claude Monet • “Father of Impressionism” • Used light colors and “painterly” brush strokes • Painted the same landscape many times from different views • Painted water lilies and other flowers in his garden • Painted hut-shaped hay stacks Rouen Cathedral at many different times of day to show the effects of light on the subject.

  7. Impressions, Sunrise

  8. Water Lillies

  9. Mary Cassatt • American • Painted mothers, children, boats • Leisure activity focus

  10. The Boating Party

  11. Rodin • Used textured surfaces that reflected the light; • Made The Thinker, bronze statue from a mold. • Two statues were cast from the same mold; one is at the University of Louisville.

  12. Degas • Focused on dancers and the play of light The Dancing Class

  13. Auguste Renoir • Focused on feminine sensuality, beauty • La Ioge • The Theater Box

  14. Suerat– Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Gette

  15. Post-Impressionism

  16. Post-Impressionism, Defined • Not objective reality, but subjective • Emotional response to objects and events through: • Distortion • Exaggeration • Primitivism • Fantasy.

  17. Gauguin– Tahitian Women on the Beach

  18. Gauguin

  19. Vincent Van Gogh • used bold strokes • used vivid color • painted scenes from nature • used the play of light over the face • captured the “barest essentials”

  20. Starry Night

  21. The Potato Eaters

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