IMPRESSIONISM

Impressionism

Impressionism

The word "impressionniste” by printed for the first time in the Paris newspaper Charivari April 25, 1874 by Louis Leroy, after this picture. The term was used in the title of the exhibition DES Impressionnistes.

Impressionism is an easy, spontaneous style of painting that began in France in reaction to the constraints and conventions of the dominant Academic art. Its naturalistic and down to earth treatment of its subject matter, most of the landscape, has its roots in the French Realism of Camille Corot and others. The name of this movement was derived from the early works of Monet, Impression: Sunrise, which has been allocated for criticism by Louis Leroy in his exhibition.

A distinctive feature of style is an attempt to capture the subjective impression of light on stage. The essence of the earliest Impressionist group was composed of Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Pierre-Auguste Renoir (www.ibiblio.org). Others associated with this period were Camille Pissarro, Frederic Bazille, Edgar Degas, Gustave Caillebotte, Edouard Manet and the American Mary Cassatt.

Stile Impressionism is probably the most successful and identifiable "movement" ever, and is still widely practiced today. But, as smart school, he faded in the late 19th century, branching into different sequence of movements that are commonly grouped under the term Post-Impressionism.

The palette also changed with the introduction of paint made with chemical dyes, making a wider range of colors (www.witcombe.sbc.e). In Paris, Monet met artists like Gustave Courbet and Pierre August Renoir. In 1874 he exhibited with the Societe Anonyme, where his painting Impression: Sunrise has earned the group called "The Impressionists", as critics believe that their pictures were incomplete impressions.

1B, 1870, Claude Monet married Camille, and both went to London and eventually settled in Argenteuil. His most famous, most popular works were produced during this time of Argenteuil, where he often painted alongside ...