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Australian Impressionism
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American Impressionism in Art
- American Impressionism in Art American Eras The Many Facets of Impressionism. The Impressionist movement transformed painting in the late nineteenth century. Whether applied to a set of artists or to a set of artistic conventions, the term impressionist suggests both the “impression” of emotions felt by artist and audience and the “impression” of atmospheric effects (such as light, shade, and color). As a French critic explained in the 1870s, impressionists “render not a landscape but the sensation produced by the landscape.”
Impressionism
- Britannica School : Western Painting - ImpressionismThe first steps toward a systematic Impressionist style were taken in France in Monet’s coast scenes from 1866 onward, notably the Terrace (1866), in which he chose a subject that allowed use of a full palette of primary colour. The decisive development took place in 1869, when Monet and Renoir painted together at the resort of La Grenouillère on the Seine River. The resulting pictures suggest that Monet contributed the pattern of separate brushstrokes, the light tonality, and the brilliance of colour; Renoir the overall iridescence, feathery lightness of touch, and delight in the recreation of ordinary people. Working at Louveciennes from 1869, Pissarro evolved the drier and more-flexible handling of crumbly paint that was also to be a common feature of Impressionist painting.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Renoir, Pierre-Auguste Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire Despite the critics' hostility to the early impressionist exhibitions, Renoir achieved commercial success as a portrait painter in such works as Madame Charpentier and Her Children (1878). Georges Charpentier was Émile Zola's publisher, and he and his wife were important figures in Parisian society. The work was praised at the Salon of 1879, and this success led to other portrait commissions. Although Renoir continued to engage with modern-life themes as did the other impressionists, he frequently did so with more sentimentality than colleagues such as Degas and Pissarro. At the same time, he was a great admirer of the music of Richard Wagner (1813–1883), and he sought to achieve complex chromatic effects in his paintings that resembled Wagner's "color-music."
- “Moulin de la galette, Le”. [Image]. In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://media1.school.eb.com.au/eb-media/34/3734-004-D66E6719.jpg
Claude Monet
- Monet, Claude Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire Claude Monet is arguably the best known of the impressionists, a group of largely French artists who challenged conventions in painting that had developed since the Renaissance and that laid the foundations for modern trends in the arts. Radical in both their techniques of painting and their choice of subject matter, Monet and his impressionist companions like Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870), Berthe Morisot (1841–1895), Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), and Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) exhibited at eight independent exhibits between 1874 and 1886. These artists painted out-of-doors, contended that they were not painting objective reality, but momentary perceptions of light reflected from objects under constantly changing climatic conditions, and painted scenes of "modern life" in contemporary France. Although an ardent proponent of impressionism, Monet had a larger and more complex career, and his corpus of approximately two thousand paintings reveals an artist whose lifework evolved through three major phases, each with its own distinctive character.
- Monet, Claude: Camille Monet on a Garden Bench. [Image]. In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://media1.school.eb.com.au/eb-media/44/134444-050-E0D98F88.jpg
Paul Cezanne
- Cézanne, Paul Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire After 1870, like the impressionists, Cézanne began working outdoors and building form with color rather than with strong tonal contrasts. During this impressionist period that stretched from 1871 to 1877, he painted his first important landscapes, including The House of the Hanged Man at Auvers (1873) and Landscape near Auvers (1874). In 1874 and 1877, he participated in the first and third impressionist exhibitions. But Cézanne's association with the impressionist circle came to a gradual end as he attempted to develop his own independent style.
- Britannica School : Paul Cezanne n July 1870, with the outbreak of the Franco-German War, Cézanne left Paris for Provence, partly to avoid being drafted. He took with him Marie-Hortense Fiquet, a young woman who had become his mistress the previous year and whom he married in 1886. The Cézannes settled at Estaque, a small village on the coast of southern France, not far from Marseille. There he began to paint landscapes, exploring ways to depict nature faithfully and at the same time to express the feelings it inspired in him. He began to approach his subjects the way his Impressionist friends did; in two landscapes from this time, Snow at Estaque (1870–71) and The Wine Market (1872), the composition is that of his early style, but already more disciplined and more attentive to the atmospheric, rather than dramatic, quality of light.
- Cézanne, Paul: Turning Road at Montgeroult. [Image]. In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://media1.school.eb.com.au/eb-media/58/134058-050-C5100D34.jpg
Edouard Manet
- Britanncia School : Edouard Manet Édouard Manet. (2016). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com.au.db.corpus.wa.edu.au/levels/high/article/50506
- “Railway, The”. [Image]. In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://media1.school.eb.com.au/eb-media/36/166236-050-591FE9A9.jpg
