Artists of The Impressionism Movement Essay

On August 1st 1914, Germany declared war on Russia, and on the 3rd, declared war on France. Starting at the top of the previous page the first piece of artwork I chose to review is Max Beckmann's piece Der Kriegsausbruch (Declaration of War), created in 1914 as the declarations of war had just been announced. This is a drawing depicting the reaction of passers-by in Berlin to the news of war being declared. I chose this piece specifically because of the "sketchy" style of drawing. I find that the looseness of his lines give the piece a feeling of anxiousness or even stress that I imagine many of the citizens depicted in the piece were feeling at the time.

“Caroline Sacks” is a chapter from the book “David and Goliath” written by the American writer Malcolm Gladwell. The nonfiction “David and Goliath “ is a collection of stories about making decisions in life and how those decisions play along and finally lead to the result. The Impressionists from the 19th century of Paris and Caroline Sacks from Washington DC had to make a decision about their futures. Gladwell shows the reader the choices they had, the decisions they made, how those decisions played along for them and the result of their decisions accordingly. The chapter describes how important the decision making is and how it affects you future. Gladwell says that although the choices were different,

Impressionism is a way of painting which depicts objects using strokes and dabs of primary unmixed colours in order to simulate reflections of light. This style of painting was completely different and new at the time and both Seurat and Monet used these methods to become pivotal impressionist artists in the early 1870s.

Duchamp was receiving much notoriety, both good and bad after painting “Nude Descending a Staircase”. At this time, World War I was making Paris a rather uncomfortable home for him, so he

Poe starts out with a man, by the name of Montresor, wanting revenge on another man, named Fortunato. Most of the story takes place deep in the Montresor family catacombs. As Montresor lures Fortunato into the catacombs, he chains Fortunato up to a small hole in a wall, bricks it over, and leaves Fortunato to die. Even through the traits of anger, hatred, and revenge, as the story progresses on, Montresor, the main character in “The Cask of Amontillado”, starts to show signs of feeling guilty for wanting to murder Fortunato.

11. 1921, Leger, Fernand, Three Women, French, Oil on Canvas, Post War “Return to Order”.

Although at first glance, Realism and Impressionism appear to be completely separate movements in 19th century art, they in fact were both bred as a response to the new order of Europe that had evolved as a result of the marks made by both the Industrial Revolution and a series of European continental wars. Realist painters and Impressionist painters alike faced controversy in challenging the status quo of the Salons, and took risks to no longer romanticize drastic changes within society caused by industrialization, but instead acknowledge them head-on. Edouard Manet in particular exemplified the gradual transitions from Realism to Impressionism and even to

World War II was a war that was forever etched in history as a result of it destruction and overwhelming body count. But who would have thought that this war would have found a way to impact art before it’s time. Before Hitler rose to power, he used the civil war in Spain around 1936 as his personal field test. In response, arts took to their trade to cope with their frustration and express their opinions. Then as war was on the verge of beginning, Hitler stole modern art from Jewish artists and put them in his own show. His show was titled “Degenerate Art,” and it portrayed the artist as demented people who were a hindrance to society. He felt sane people were incapable of producing such abstract art. He went on to sponsor another

The period of Impressionism and Post Impressionism embarks from ca. 1860 to 1910 CE. For the Impressionists artists the main focus were the upper middle class, the city and restful activities. They emphasized in the outdoors, parks, sky, star, sun etc. in hope to obtain directly the effects of light and the atmosphere, this method was known as en plein air. This technique was influenced by the Japanese art and photography. They used strokes and touches of pure colors mostly white, almost never black. They were able to record or attain the shifting play of light on the surface of the object they were working on. This method allowed the artist to record the effect light had on the eyes of the spectator without concern for the physical aspect

In the impressionist style germinated outdoors painting. The Impressionists abandoned the rhetoric of the sublime romantic and sentimental in the landscape, eliminate the mystery and nostalgia for a more objective look at the representation of nature. For the Impressionists was essential to break the division between study and picture, because the romantic and realistic artists used to paint their pictures from notes taken from nature. The Impressionists abandoned the constant indirect light and worked looking for, brighter and intense, more variable and difficult to capture direct sunlight.

During the Modern Era of the late 19th century and the early 20th century, many artists were turning away from the idea of painting realistic images. Photography, having just been developed for public use a few decades earlier, made artists of the day focus less on painting as an precise copy of what is seen, as had been done for centuries. Since the Middle Ages, most artists painted exact representations of life. Starting in the late 1800s, though, many artists were starting to embrace the theory of art as an impression of what is seen. Impressionism, the art movement that began in the 1870s in France, was the first real development of this new concept of painting. Impressionists, such as Claude Monet, sought to put on canvas how they

The first exhibit that the Impressionists held didn’t give them good money and brought in many judgemental people that mocked their art. The critics believed that most of their art was unfinished and lacked a lot of artistic style. Infact, people said that their completed work resembled sketches or quick unthoughtful paintings. These skeptic people weren’t used to the style of the Impressionists. The quick pieces of art were called “Impressions”, which helped preserve an artist's ideas before they painted their masterpiece. Another thing that brought conflict between these artists and everyday citizens was that the Impressionists believed that landscapes were a very important part of art, whereas most people thought that only paintings of

Impressionism is the movement in the arts that favored exploration of the elements that include light, color and sound over literal presentation. This effort in music was more concerned with human perception and how the artwork would be impressed on us rather that expressionism is concerned with gestures and how they reflect internal psychological mindsets. One of the most innovated composers that is considered an “impressionist” composer is Claude Debussy, who focuses his artwork on the visual aspect. In his first book of Préludes there are two pieces of music that show Debussy’s uses of impressionism are “Violes” by the influence from painter Monet.

In the Degenerate Art Exhibition the art was placed on the walls haphazardly with derogatory statements towards the artist or art to try to bias people’s opinions of the art and to build up their regime. I felt that the reason for this was to have the viewer feel that their history and culture was not being appreciated and that the artists were in some ways looking down on them. I was very surprised that Hitler was an artist and I was not expecting to see much in his art. I tried to look at his art from an unbiased perception which was very hard. I had to tell myself that had I not known who Hitler was and the art was at an exhibit posted as anonymous how I would I see it from that point of view. I felt that some of his art was beautiful, not dark, as I was

     Impressionism began during the 19th century. An example of an artist’s beliefs influencing his art can be seen in the works of Pierre Auguste Renoir. It is documented that he felt that art should be different from the real world, which can be cold and harsh. He said, “Why shouldn’t art be pretty?” and “There are enough unpleasant things in the world.” An example of his attitude towards art can be seen in ‘A Girl with a Watering Can’ from 1876. This picture can easily be interpreted as being beautiful and therefore it proves that his belief of art is true. ‘Dance at Bougival’ from 1883, is yet another example of the artist and the inspiration for the art. By painting an attractive scene with two people dancing accompanied by laughing faces in the background we see a correlation between his quotes above and this piece. Therefore, one can conclude that Renoir painted mostly beautiful and attractive art.