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Explore the revolutionary art movement that rejected traditional techniques and embraced the use of color and light to represent immediate visual sensations. Discover how Impressionism influenced the art world and its lasting impact.
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Impressionism: the New PaintingArt History September 13, 2007Grade 12 Visual ArtsMs LeRoy
Édouard ManetDéjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863
James M Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, 1875
James Abbott McNeil Whistler, Arrangement in Black and Gray (Portrait of the Artist’s Mother), 1871
IMPRESSIONISM Notes • Early 1860s, France. Paris was still a medieval city up until the time when Napolean III (Boneparte’s nephew) proclaims himself ruler and appoints Baron Haussmann to modernize Paris for political and aesthetic reasons. Haussmann supervises urban design of drainage, sewers, clean water, bridges, fountains, public parks to discourage revolutionary activities and uprisings. • Impressionism rejects Renaissance perspective, balanced composition, idealized figures and chiaroscuro • Represented immediate visual sensations through colour and light • Influenced by Japanese woodblock prints that were appearing on the market • was interested in the effects of light and color • based on observation, not interested in politics or religion • "art for art's sake" (Whistler) • used broken color, rather than flat • Impressionism began in France with a group of artists interested in color • Claude Monet was the leader of the Impressionist movement . He used diffused light and color to create composition Impression: Sunrise, 1872, oil on canvas. • one critic advised that small children or pregnant women should not see this work • Period that lasted only 15 years