1.2 MODERN ART

• Impressionism - Is an art movement and style of painting that started in Paris France in the late 1860.
• Impressionism - is a light and spontaneous manner of painting.
• impressionism - In this time, artists like to capture their images without detail but with bold unblended colors.
• Louis Leroy - He uses the term “Impressionism"
• Impressionism - Artists wanted to get away from the depiction of idealized forms and perfect symmetry.
• Impressionism - The movement's name came from Claude Monet's early work, Impression, Sunrise.
• Impression, Sunrise - This was singled out for criticism in an exhibition.
• Impression, Sunrise - Claude Monet's early work.
• Impressionists prioritized the following:

  • Use color and light to unify images.
  • Using small brushtrokes and dabs of paint.
  • Abandonding traditional linear perspective.
  • Avoiding clarity of forms, sometimes Impressionist paintings look undefined and fuzzy.
  • Moving from the studio to countryside.
• In Impressionism, freely brushed colors were more important than lines and forms.
• Impressionism exhibit “everyday” scenarios as subjects.
• Impressionism - Artists move away from the usually formal portraits and splendid portrayals of literary, historical, religious, and mythical subjects.
• Impressionist artist preferred their subject to be positioned in an unusual angle, sizes can be out of proportion, off-centered and allowed empty spaces on the canvas.
• The Impressionists preferred to paint outside than in their typical art studio, and this made from the conventional painters.
• Photography - gained popularity that inspired the Impressionists to capture momentary day-to-day movements or landscapes.
• Artists in Impressionism:

  • Claude Monet
  • Edouard Manet
  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Camille Pissarro
  • Edgar Degas
• Claude Monet - He was the most prominent of the group; and is considered the most influential figure in the movement.
• Claude Monet - is best known for his landscape paintings, particularly those depicting his beloved flower gardens and water lily ponds at his home in Giverny.
• Famous works of Claude Monet

  • La Promenade
  • The Red Boats, Argenteuil
  • Bridge over a pond of water lilies
  • Irises in Monet's garden
• Edouard Manet - Was one of the first 19ᵗʰ century artists to depict modern life subjects.
• Edouard Manet - He was a key figure in the transition from realism to impressionism, with a number of his works considered as marking the birth of modern art.
• Famous works of Edouard Manet

  • Argenteuil
  • Rue Monsier decked with flags
  • Cafe Concert
  • The bar at the Folies-Bergere
• Pierre-Aguste Renoir - His early works were snapshots of real life, full of sparkling color and light.
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir - By the mid-1880s, however, he broke away from the impressionist movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits of actual people and figure paintings.
• Famous works of Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  • Dancer
  • A girl with a watering can
  • Mlle Irene Cahen d' Anvers
  • Luncheon of the Boating Party
• Camille Pissarro - Made The Hyde Park in London
• Edgar Degas - Made The Dance Class