Impressionism Art

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•  a 19th-century art movement that began in the 1860s to the 1890s created by Claude Monet 

• the name of the movement is derived from the title of a work, which provoked the critic to coin the term in describing Monet's work - that the paintings were “impressions” rather than finished works 

• this movement began with Manet in 1860, against an old and dusty workshop painting art with established conventions that had become too restrictive for modern time, in order to have their new realistic way of painting recognized 

• the works attempted to capture the effects of time and light on their subject matter, and used the painting techniques of applying short rapid brush strokes leaving dabs or spots of colour on the canvas 

• the colours the artists used were usually pure or right out of the tube and were often not mixed on the canvas or the palette before application 

Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son
Claude Monte, 1875
National Gallery of Art

• Manet's formula : "I paint what I see, and not what others like to see", summarizes this claim of the artist to give his personal vision , that of his own subjectivity.  

Beach at Sainte-Adresse

Claude Monte, 1867

Art Institute of Chicago

The Water Lily Pond 

Claude Monte, 1899

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Works Cited:

1. Impressionism and Impressionist Movement. N.p., 2014. Web. 14 Feb. 2016. <http://www.impressionniste.net/impressionism_history.htm>.
2. "Impressionism." The Burlington Magazine 133.1057 (1991): 275. Web. 14 Feb. 2016. <http://schools.bgcdsb.org/%7Esean_arnett/01_Impressionism_Art.pdf>.