1. ImpREssionism
Masters of light

2. 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.

3. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet painting, called Impression, Sunrise

4. Impression - Sunrise

5. 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

6. Gustave Courbet: The Stone Breakers

7. Impressionism Crash Course
The Impressionists

8. 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.

9. “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

10. 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.

11. The Impressionists began to see, or paint, the world in terms of color & light rather than depth & volume.

12. Impressionism Challenged social and artistic norms.
Starting point of modern art.

13. E.L.B.O.W. E veryday life L ight B rushstrokes O utdoor settings
W eather & atmosphere

14. Everyday life

15. Emphasis on Light

16. The Changing Qualities of Light
Haystack - Morning
Haystack - Mist

17. Visible Brushstrokes

18. “In the open air” style of painting.
En Plein Air –
“In the open air” style of painting.
John Singer Sargent: Monet Painting
Outdoors

19. Unusual Visual Angles

20. Open Compositions

21. Optical Mixing
-create paint colors not by mixing them but through knowledge of color theory and how the eye perceives colors

24. 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:

25. Masters of Impressionism
Claude Monet – Lilly ponds & Gardens Auguste Renoir – People Outdoors Edgar Degas – Dancers and Theater Mary Cassatt– Mother and Child

26. Paintings by Claude Monet
Self Portrait

27. 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)

28. Monet: Water Lillies

29. Monet: Water Lillies - Clouds

30. Monet: Water Lillies

31. Monet's Water Lilies

32. Monet: Poplars

33. Artists Garden at Giverny - 1886

34. Water lilies – The Clouds - 1903

35. Paintings by Auguste Renoir

36. Show happily dancing couples Have many people together
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

37. Renoir: Monet painting in his Garden

38. Renoir: The Swing

39. Renoir: Luncheon at the Boating Party

40. Renoir: Dance at the Moulin de la Galette

41. Paintings By Edgar Degas

42. Psychology of movement and expression Ballet dancers or horses
Characteristics
Psychology of movement and expression
Ballet dancers or horses
Oil and pastel chosen mediums

43. Degas: The Dancing Class

44. Degas: Jockeys

45. Degas: Horses Before the Stands

46. Degas: Cabaret

47. Degas: The Rehearsal

48. Degas Bio

49. Paintings by Camille Pissaro
Self Portrait

50. Characteristics Landscapes Rural solitude
Broadly painted (sometimes with palette knife) naturalism derived from Courbet, but with an Impressionist palette.

51. Quotes by Pissarro
“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”
“Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.”
“It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.”

52. The Orchard

53. Jallais Hills

54. Path Through the Woods - 1876

55. Boulavarde Montmarte – Rainy Afternoon - 1897

56. Boulavarde Montmarte – Night - 1897

57. Bridge At Villanueve

58. Flood at Port Marly

59. Station at Serves

60. Mary Cassatt

61. Young woman with red hair (sister)
characteristics
Mother and child
Young woman with red hair (sister)
Simple, everyday moments of home life
Used pastels, giving a soft, fuzzy look

62. Cassatt: The Boating Party

63. Cassatt: The Bath

64. Cassatt: Breakfast in Bed

65. Painting techniques developed and used by the Impressionists:

66. Short, thick strokes of paint are used to quickly capture the essence of the subject, rather than its details.

68. Colors are applied side-by-side with as little mixing as possible, creating a vibrant surface. The optical mixing of colors occurs in the eye of the viewer.

70. The play of natural light is emphasized
The play of natural light is emphasized. Close attention is paid to the reflection of colors from object to object.

72. Grays and dark tones are produced by mixing complimentary colors
Grays and dark tones are produced by mixing complimentary colors. In pure Impressionism the use of black paint is avoided.

74. In paintings made En Plein Air (outdoors), shadows are boldly painted with the blue of the sky as it is reflected onto surfaces, giving a sense of freshness and openness that was not captured in painting previously. (Blue shadows on snow inspired the technique.)

75. Pissarro, Church at Moret

76. Impressionism became the birth of Modern Art
Impressionism became the birth of Modern Art. All of the major art movements which would follow, including Post Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art owe their beginnings to Impressionism.

77. Post-impressionism
Seurat
van Gogh
Cezanne