Impressionism
Subjects and Styles
Pissarro Jean Louis David “Father of Impressionist
Movement” Salon
•Embraced Seurats Pointillism as the natural development of Impressionism
•historical/religious/mythological subjects
Modern World Began in France. Most successful movement. Name derived from Monet’s early work
“Sunrise” Reacted Strongly against the “dead art” of the
past and the restrictions of the Academic Art/Salon.
The idea of recording immediate impressions, documenting own experiences. Capturing a moment in time.
Sensory Impressions
Degas
Sensory Impressions Images appear to be accidental and
spontaneous. Artists did make numerous preliminary
sketches. Wanted the work to be uncontrived.
Public Places “En plain air” or out of
doors Depicting sunlight and its
effects on objects . This completely changed
the darker palette characteristic of the Salon.
Renoir and Monet used rainbow colors eliminated black shadows/no outlines
Monet one of the most famous French Impressionist
Monet
Public Places – Radiant portraits of large groups of people
Renoir “Luncheon of the Boating Party”
Public Places
Cassatt and Manet
Public Places
Degas
Cassatt was influenced by the work of Degas Cassatt
La Loge 1879
Optical Color Mixing
Colors juxtaposed on the canvas and fused by the eye at a certain distance.
Use of unmixed primary colors. Made a visual vibration that recreated the
sense of sparkling sunlight.
Seurat – Neo-Impressionist responsible for creating pointillism (Detail)
Optical Color Mixing
Seurat
Optical Color MixingCreated Images of haystacks and gardens
Monet
Sense of Immediacy Moment of the artist’s visual experience
was directly transcribed onto the canvas. Use of broken brushwork and the
transience of the subjects such a running horses and people at work.
Small brush strokes used to simulate actual reflected light.
Sense of Immediacy
Cassatt Morisot
Degas
Known for his paintings of ballerinas, racetracks, cafes and music halls
Influences Development of Paris and urban
sensibility. Leisure activities – outdoor activies Technology and photography – captured
how people and animals moved. Rise of the middle class. Commercially available oil paint in
resealable aluminum tubes – artists could work outside
Influences Japanese prints, flat, bright color, emphasizing line
and asymmetrical compositions.
Cassatt
•Applied pastels with loose vigorous strokes, leaving soft fuzzy lines. Suggesting immediacy
•Favorite subjects were women/children/family
•The only American to exhibit with the the Impressionist
Cassatt
Morisot
•Made famous for her bright colored portraits of women, children and basic family life
•The first woman to join the Impressionist
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