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ImpREssionism. Masters of light. Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris based artists, who began exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860’s.
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ImpREssionism Masters of light
Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris based artists, who began exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860’s.
The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet painting, called Impression, Sunrise
REBUILDING OF PARIS • Between 1830-1850 pop. doubled! • Napolean III rebuilt Paris • Paris became central city of art, specifically at the Salon • Supported Neo Classical and Romanticism painting
Impressionism Crash Course The Impressionists
What is the role of the modern artist in society…? “…Not to be an archaeologist, drudging up the past, but to make the present permanent.” To train as an artist, one must train your sensibility and observation. You must learn to “see”. Charles Baudelaire, -writer and art critic.
“The crowd is his domain, just as the air is the bird's, and water that of the fish. His passion and his profession is to merge with the crowd. For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions.” – Charles Baudelaire
Impressionist artists were inspired by the new technology of Photography. They felt the need to create a new style of painting in which accurate rendering of the subject was not the main focus.
The Impressionists began to see, or paint, the world in terms of color&lightrather than depth&volume.
Impressionism • Challenged social and artistic norms. • Starting point of modern art.
E.L.B.O.W. E veryday life L ight B rushstrokes O utdoor settings W eather & atmosphere
The Changing Qualities of Light Haystack - Morning Haystack-Mist
En Plein Air – “In the open air” style of painting. John Singer Sargent: Monet Painting Outdoors
Optical Mixing -create paint colors not by mixing them but through knowledge of color theoryand how the eye perceives colors
Today the Impressionist style is very much alive and a very successful technique of painting. Though many artists have painted in the Impressionist style, the following artists were the innovators and masters of their style:
Masters of Impressionism • Claude Monet– Lilly ponds & Gardens • Auguste Renoir– People Outdoors • Edgar Degas– Dancers and Theater • Mary Cassatt– Mother and Child
Paintings by Claude Monet Self Portrait
Characteristics • Often are nature scenes (water and water lillies) • 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)
Characteristics • Many 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 his favorite
Characteristics • Psychology of movement and expression • Ballet dancers or horses • Oil and pastel chosen mediums
Paintings by Camille Pissaro Self Portrait
Characteristics • Landscapes • Rural solitude • Broadly painted (sometimes with palette knife) naturalism derived from Courbet, but with an Impressionist palette.
