Impressionni

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What is it About?
Art movement
Originated in Paris,
France
Anonymous artists,
sculptors, and musicians
Impressionism. (2015) Encyclopdia Britannica. britannica.com

First exhibition in 1874,

calling themselves
anonymous group
Louis Leroy gave them
the title impressionists

Impressionism. Wooden, H. E. Director Emeritus, The Wichita Art Museum. Retrieved from www.scholastic .com

How do impressionists
paint?
Accurate and objective
Colors are mixed in the eye
Effects of light
Plin-air painting
Landscape and still-life painting

Rejected the canon

of painting
View the relationship
of the surface of the
painting.
Self-Portrait with a
Palette.1879. Oil on
canvas. Private collection.

Known as the father

of impressionism

douard Manet

Le Djeuner sur lherbe

www.claude-monet.com

The Founder of Impressionism

Painted more than 250

works focused on water
lilies.
Introduced plein air
painting by Boudin
Depicted the Rouen
Cathedral in different
Oil on Canvas, Painting
1886
Private Collection

times of the day.

Claude Monet

Impression: soleil levant (Impression:Sunrise)

CLAUDE MONET, 1872. Oil on canvas, 1' 7 1/2" x 2' 1 1/2".
Muse Marmottan, Paris.

impressionistsgallery.co.uk

ost-Impressionism
Late 19 Century
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Vincent Willem van

Gogh
Ear was mutilated
800 paintings, 700
drawings
Separated to form other
impressionist group
Shot himself but died two
days later
Self-portrait, oil on mill
board on cradled panel,
188687; in the Art Institute
of Chicago

Transformed the
contrasting short

Paintings

The Red Vineyard

The Starry
Night

1.There is the night sky filled with swirling

clouds, stars ablaze with their own
luminescence, and a bright crescent moon.
2. Below the rolling hills of the horizon lies
a small town.
3. To the left of the painting there is a
massive dark structure that develops an
even greater sense of size and isolation.
vangoghgallery.com

Paul
Czanne

Influenced the modern art

style of Cubism and Fauvism
Instability of personality
led him to paint
Withdrew from
impressionism

Self-portrait by Paul
Czanne, oil on canvas, c.
187880; in the Phillips
Collection, Washington,
D.C.

Rejected the objectivity

The Bathers

Neoan art movement that flourished

Impressionism
principally in France from 1886 to 1906.
Relied on systematic calculation and
scientific theory.
Has solidity and clarity

http://impressionistsgallery.co.uk.

Pointillism and
Pointilism refers to technique of
Divisionism
applying dots.

Divisionism is separating of color

into dots or strokes of pigment.
oContrasting dots are seen afar as a
whole
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/glossary/pointillism

George Pierre
(18591891)
Abled to enter cole des
Seurat
Beaux-Arts
Focused intellectual and
scientific bases of art
Method is avant-garde review

Used Detached strokes of pure

color
Divisionism and pointilism

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La

Grande Jatte,

18841886, Oil on canvas, 207.6 cm 308 cm, Art Institute of Chicago

Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection, 1926.224/Photography The Art Institute

Chica

Sculptures
and
Architecture

Franois-Auguste-Ren
Had an affair with his student
Rodin
Married her wife before her
death
Portraitist in sculpting
In conflict with everybody
A titan of sculpture
The Gates of Hell was never

The Thinker

A part of the monumental

Gates of Hell.
Nudity marked as poet
Also known as Poet
Conceived as Dante

Alexandre-Gustave
The Magician of Iron
Eiffel
French civil engineer
specializes in metal
construction
Studied aerodynamics
Compressed-air caisson in
bridge building
Designed many
architectural wonders

Eiffel . Encyclopedia Britann

Built as monument
for the celebration of
the centenary of
French Revolution.
The glass cage
machines became the
principal feature of the
building

The Eiffel
Tower

Erected in only two

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Retrieved from www.britannica.com
Anirudh. (February 2014) Retrieved from
http://learnodo-newtonic.com/paul-cezannefamous-paintings
King, Jennifer. (May 25, 1996).
http://www.princeton.edu/~freshman/art/history/
artp.html
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Impressionism. Wooden, H. E. Director Emeritus, The

Wichita Art Museum. Retrieved from www.scholastic .com
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http://www.cmonetgallery.com/zz_self-portrait-with-aberet.aspx
impressionistsgallery.co.uk
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%20impressionism.html#sthash.rjUBYUZS.dpuf