Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Impressionism
- Origins
- 19th-century art
movement that
originated with a
group of Paris-based
artists.
- The Impressionists faced harsh
opposition from the conventional art
community in France. The name of the
style derives from the title of a Claude
Monet work, Impression, soleil
levant (Impression, Sunrise).
- Characteristics
- Impressionist painting
characteristics include relatively
small, thin, yet visible brush strokes,
open composition, emphasis on
accurate depiction of light in its
changing qualities
- Inclusion of movement as a crucial
element of human perception and
experience, and unusual visual
angles.
- Style
- Radicals in their time, early Impressionists violated the rules of
academic painting. They constructed their pictures from freely
brushed colours that took precedence over lines and contours.
- They also painted realistic scenes of modern life, and often
painted outdoors. Previously, still lifes and portraits as well
as landscapes were usually painted in a studio.
- The Impressionists found that they could capture the momentary
and transient effects of sunlight by painting en plein air.
- Main painters
- Monet,
Manet,
Van Gogh,
Renoir,
Cezanne.
- Claude Monet