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Impressionism
Impressionism
• Photography in the nineteenth century both challenged painters to be true to nature and encouraged them to exploit aspects of the painting medium, like color, that photography lacked. This divergence away from photographic realism appears in the work of a group of artists who from 1874 to 1886 exhibited together, independently of the Salon
• The leaders of the independent movement were Claude Monet, August Renoir, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, and Mary Cassatt. They became known as Impressionists because a newspaper critic thought they were painting mere sketches or impressions. The Impressionists, however, considered their works finished.
Why Impressionism?
• Photography
• Tin paint tubes
• Salon
Edouard Manet
• Stayed mostly traditional.
• Slowly began to increase strokes of paint.
Olympia
Luncheon on the Grass
The Balcony
A Bar at the Folies-Bergeres
Monet
• Leading Impressionist.
• First started to paint for light and color.
• Broke outline constraints.
• Series of same landscape or subject.
• Water lilies
Impression, Sunrise
Wheatstacks (End of Summer)1890-91
Poplars along the River Epte,
Autumn1891
Auguste Renoir
• Scenes of popular river resorts and views of a bustling Paris.
• People and children.
• Quick brush strokes.
La PromenadeThe Walk
1870
Nini in the Garden
A Girl With a Watering
Can1876
The Canoeists' Luncheon
The Luncheon of the Boating Party
Mary Cassatt
• Children, doting on her nieces and nephews and the offspring of friends.
• One of the first important women artists.
• Studied Japanese wood printing.
• Interior scenes of small groups or single figures.
Portrait of a Little Girl1878
Oil on canvas
Self-portraitc. 1880
Watercolor on ivory wove paper
Young Girl at a Windowc. 1883
Oil on canvas
Children on the Beach
1884Oil on canvas
Mother and Child1889
Oil on canvas
The Letter1890-91
Drypoint and aquatint on cream laid
paper
La Toilettec. 1891
Oil on canvas
The Boating Party
1893-94 Oil on canvas
Girl Arranging Her Hair
Degas
• Pastels
• Dancers
• Cropped pictures
Carriage at the Races
The Orchestra
at the Opera House
Ballet Rehearsal on the Set
Dancer
The Absinthe Drinker
The Star
Dancers Practicing at the Bar
Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer. 1879/81. Bronze,
painted in part, tulle skirt, satin bow, wooden
stand. The Metropolitan Museum of
Art,
Ballet Class
The Tub
Pastel on paper