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Impressionism. An outdoor painting technique that shows the changing effect of light and color. Claude Monet. Claude Monet. Water Lilies. Impression Sunrise. Impressionism. A style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s.
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Impressionism An outdoor painting technique that shows the changing effect of light and color. Claude Monet Claude Monet Water Lilies Impression Sunrise
Impressionism • Astyle or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s. • Characterized by depicting the visual impression of the moment. • Studied the shifting effect of light and color. Impressionism Characteristics • Landscapes, scenes of the middle class, sketch like. • Plein-air: painting done outdoors rather than in the studio. • This was the first time that artists painted outside their studios. • Study of light, and the fleeting moment. • Loose choppy brushstrokes, dabs of paint, impasto. • Impasto: Heavy layering of paint so that it stands out from a surface.
Grainstack (Sunset) Grainstack (Snow Effect) Stack of Wheat (Thaw, Sunset) Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn)
Claude Monet Water Lilies
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Dance at Bougival
Mary Cassatt Summertime
Berthe Morisot The Cradle
Edgar Degas Dancer with a Bouquet of Flowers
Edouard Manet The Railway (Gare Saint-Lazare)
Alfred Sisley Cornfield
Camille Pissarro White Frost
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Portrait of Monet Edgar Degas, Portrait of Miss Cassatt