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Impressionism emerged in the late 19th century in France as an art movement focused on capturing fleeting moments and sensations of light and color rather than detailed representations. Four young painters including Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir met in the early 1860s while studying under Charles Gleyre and shared an interest in painting landscapes and contemporary life. Impressionist techniques included using short, thick strokes of paint and applying colors side by side with little mixing to make colors appear more vivid. The content and compositions resembled snapshots capturing chance moments. While male Impressionists explored these new techniques, female Impressionists faced social and career limitations but were also interested in depicting visual experience and contemporary subjects. Prominent Impression

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Impressionism

Impressionism emerged in the late 19th century in France as an art movement focused on capturing fleeting moments and sensations of light and color rather than detailed representations. Four young painters including Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir met in the early 1860s while studying under Charles Gleyre and shared an interest in painting landscapes and contemporary life. Impressionist techniques included using short, thick strokes of paint and applying colors side by side with little mixing to make colors appear more vivid. The content and compositions resembled snapshots capturing chance moments. While male Impressionists explored these new techniques, female Impressionists faced social and career limitations but were also interested in depicting visual experience and contemporary subjects. Prominent Impression

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What is Impressionism?
Impressionism is an art movement that emerged in the
late 19th century in France. It is characterized by its
focus on capturing fleeting moments and sensations of
light and color, rather than creating highly detailed and
realistic representations of the subject matter.
Beginnings:
In the early 1860s, four young painters such as Claude Monet,
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frédéric Bazille met
while studying under the academic artist Charles Gleyre. They
discovered that they shared an interest in painting landscape and
contemporary life rather than historical or mythological scenes.
Impressionist Techniques:
A number of identifiable techniques and working habits contributed to
the innovative style of the Impressionists. These techniques include:
Short, thick strokes of paint quickly capture the essence of the subject, rather than its
details. The paint is often applied impasto.
Colours are applied side by side with as little mixing as possible, a technique that
exploits the principle of simultaneous contrast to make the colour appear more vivid
to the viewer.
The paint is applied to a white or light-coloured ground. Previously, painters often
used dark grey or strongly coloured grounds.
Content and Composition:
The Impressionists relaxed the boundary between subject and background so that
the effect of an Impressionist painting often resembles a snapshot, a part of a
larger reality captured as if by chance. Photography was gaining popularity, and as
cameras became more portable, photographs became more candid. Photography
inspired Impressionists to represent momentary action, not only in the fleeting
lights of a landscape, but in the day-to-day lives of people.

Female Impressionists:
Impressionists were looking for ways to depict visual experience and
contemporary subjects. Female Impressionists were interested in these same
ideals but had many social and career limitations compared to male
Impressionists. One can understand that women have no originality of thought,
and that literature and music have no feminine character; but surely women know
how to observe, and what they see is quite different from that which men see.
Prominent Impressionists
and their Artworks

He was a French painter and founder of


impressionist painting who is seen as a key
precursor to modernism, especially in his
attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.
During his long career, he was the most
consistent and prolific practitioner of
impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's
perceptions before nature, especially as applied
to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The
term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of
his painting Impression, soleil levant, exhibited
in 1874 (the "exhibition of rejects") initiated by
Monet and his associates as an alternative to
Claude Monet the Salon.

(1840–1926)
Impression, Sunrise
He was a French artist who was a leading
painter in the development of the Impressionist
style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially
feminine sensuality, it has been said that
"Renoir is the final representative of a tradition
which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(1841–1919)
Young Girls at the Piano
He was the most consistent of the
Impressionists in his dedication to painting
landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He
deviated into figure painting only rarely and,
unlike Renoir and Pissarro, he found that
Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs.

Alfred Sisley
(1839–1899)
Under Hampton Court Bridge

He became interested in painting after seeing


some works of Eugène Delacroix. His family
agreed to let him study painting, but only if he
also studied medicine. Many of Bazille's major
works are examples of figure painting in which
he placed the subject figure within a landscape
painted en plein air.

Frédéric Bazille

(1841–1870)
View of the Village

He was a French Impressionist artist famous for


his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints
and drawings. Degas is especially identified with
the subject of dance; more than half of his
works depict dancers.

Edgar Degas

(1834–1917)
The Ballet Class

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Joan Claire L. Gonzales
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