Impressionism

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Impressionism

• Visual Art

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Impressionism

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

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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.

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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.

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Impressionism How-To

• Paint in comma strokes
• Sketch, dont polish
• Dont mix colors
• Use intense colors let the viewer's eye mix the
  colors.

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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.

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Impressions, Sunrise
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Water Lillies
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Mary Cassatt

• American
• Painted mothers, children, boats
• Leisure activity focus

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The Boating Party
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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.

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Degas

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

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Auguste Renoir

• Focused on feminine sensuality, beauty
• La Ioge
• The Theater Box

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Suerat Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Gette
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Post-Impressionism
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Post-Impressionism, Defined

• Not objective reality, but subjective
• Emotional response to objects and events through
  
• Distortion
• Exaggeration
• Primitivism
• Fantasy.

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Gauguin Tahitian Women on the Beach
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Gauguin
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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

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Starry Night
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The Potato Eaters