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IMPRESSIONISM

In the first years of 20 th Century, Impressionist works appeared to be so modern , that it took their contemporaries more than thirty years to finally admit them. However ,as the years have gone by, Impressionism seems more traditional and representative of reality.

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IMPRESSIONISM

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  1. In the first years of 20th Century, Impressionist works appeared to be so modern, that it took their contemporaries more than thirty years to finally admit them. • However ,as the years have gone by, Impressionism seems more traditional and representative of reality. • The main influences are: The Romantics like GERICAULT and DELACROIX The Realistic movement (COURBET and MILLET) The Barbizon School (DAUBIGNY,ROUSSEAU, COROT) Courbet, Corot and Delacroix then represent the avant-garde of French painting and would constitute the models of which all the Impressionist would take as a starting point at the beginning of the movement. • Another important influence was the British lanscape painters like Bonington, Constable and Turner. IMPRESSIONISM FIRST TIMES INFLUENCES

  2. EUGENE DELACROIX THE LION HUNT

  3. Gustave COURBET The artist`s studio

  4. A new style of painting, that would take the name of Impressionism (thanks to Manet`s picture: Impression, soleil levant in the year 1874), would develop in France between 1860 and 1890. A new style based on the "plein-air"(outdoor) landscape painting then appeared. IMPRESSIONISM WHERE IS THE ORIGIN OF THIS NAME? This evolution in painting history is not an isolated movement and corresponds to the industrialrevolution changing the way of life .

  5. MONET IMPRESSION , SOLEIL LEVANT

  6. . This style establishes rules which then passed for immutable in painting : precise drawing and contours, use of flat colors with attenuated variations, light and shade convention... By doing so, the future Impressionists would introduce a number of new pictorial processes : use of light tones, division of tones (an orange is represented by a juxtaposition of two pure colors,for e.g. red and yellow), form and volume resulting from colored brushworks instead of drawing-contour, thickness of paint ... Characteristics The Saint Martin, Canal in Paris. Alfred SISLEY.

  7. August Renoir Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette

  8. Manet's formula : "I paint what I see, and not what others like to see", summarizes this claim that the artist would to give his personal vision The Impressionist movement is the origin of a great artistic revolution , today still the object of study and analysis, and in this moment a new concept appears about the role and the place of painters in society. Berthe Morisot's The Cradle (oil on canvas, 22x18inches) is housed in the Musée d'Orsay

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