Impressionism : A New Style Of Art

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.

In the 19th century, there was an artistic transition from realism to a new form called impressionism. This change originated in France, as the world underwent a transition to industrialization. The impressionist was able to understand how light and color operate hand in hand in a painting. Instead of seeing an image as a whole work, impressionist would see smaller images making up the entire piece. The style was primarily made of the use of intense colors, open composition, light and movement and brush strokes. They were mainly

Post-Impressionism came about later in 19th century (1880-1890's) France. During that time, Edouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, and Maurice Denis, members of a group of experimental artists known as the Nabis, played a significant role in the revival of decorative painting. Their experimentation with the arrangement of line and color was meant to function as a visual equivalent of nature without replicating its appearance. They also hoped to reassert the role of paint in decorating interior living spaces. Influenced by Impressionists use of color, yet pushing the appearance of nature, especially stressing high-keyed color, they developed bold new styles using innovative brushwork and emphasizing geometric shapes and figures. These techniques are known as Divisionism or Pointillism and they contrast significantly with the short, spontaneous canvases of Impressionism. Contributing to these developments were the likes of Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gaugin, and George Seurat. These techniques later influenced many abstract painters of the early 20th

Impressionism can be considered the first distinctly modern movement in painting. Developing in Paris in the 1860s, its influence spread throughout Europe and eventually the United States. Impressionism was a style of representational art that did not necessarily rely on realistic depictions. The Impressionists loosened their brushwork and lightened their palettes to include pure, intense colors.

This essay analyses the aesthetic and ideological underpinnings of the Modernist artwork, Impression, Sunrise of Claude Monet. The artwork and Impressionism is considered to be a visual articulation of the avant-garde and the latter statement is explained. References to the writings of Charles Harrison, Clement Greenberg and Wilhelm Worringer is used to theorise the aesthetics of modernity.

A group of French artists in Paris, of which included Claude Monet and Berthe Morisot, worked together in their academic painting, while rejecting Salons and becoming independent from the Académie. They created a self-supporting group rather than relying on state-sanctioned institutions (Stokstad 987). Impressionists challenged the way paintings were viewed, and critics often viewed their paintings as unfinished. As a result, they unknowingly started the movement of Impressionism, and the movement changed the way art was created. Impressionist artists escaped from the norms of painting religion and the working class, and turned to subjects like landscape, nature, and the upper class.

Prominent members of the group included Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Degas. Typical characteristics of paintings from the Impressionist artists might include landscapes and urban scenes with bright colours, long thin visible brushstrokes and a focus on accurately portraying light. The early group were inspired by artists like J.M.W. Turner and his use of colour. Like Turner, impressionists often let the colour guide their painting. A core idealism of the movement was to trying to capture light at a particular moment. To do this they often decided to paint en plein air, they found this gave the paintings a sense of freshness. Multiple techniques were combined from artists like Velásquez, Constable and Turner. These techniques included impasta, making grey and dark tones from complementary colours and an emphasis on natural light. By combining these techniques of the past they created a new creative style of painting. Another common technique among the artists included the use of complementary colours as this was thought to bring out deeper and brighter colours with the paintings. One of the core ideas of impressionism linked to the same idea of spontaneity is to show an experience and to think about what the mind would see. For example not painting in all the faces in the background, only the ones in the interest of the painting and the audience.

The Art Story Foundation (ASF) (2015) discusses Claude Monet (1840-1926) as one of the leaders of French Impressionism of the late nineteenth century. With Edouard Manet (1832-1883) as an inspiration, Monet developed his own distinctive style in the 1860s. He blurred the clarity of forms and linear perspective with bold colors emphasizing on qualities of light and atmosphere going against traditional artistic precision.

Claude Monet was born in Paris on the 14th November, 1840. When he was five years old, he moved to the port town of Le Havre. For much of his childhood, Monet was considered by both his teachers and his parents to be undisciplined and, therefore, unlikely to make a success of his life. Enforcing this impression, Monet showed no interest in inheriting his father's wholesale grocery. The only subject which seemed to spark any interest in the child was painting. He developed a decent reputation in school for the caricatures he was fond of creating. By the age of fifteen, he was receiving commission for his work.

Since the 18th century, paintings were classified by the genre they fit in. History paintings were viewed to be superior, followed by portraits, landscape, genre scenes, and still life. The upcoming style to break this hierarchy would be Impressionism. Impressionism started around 1869 and would soon birth a variety of incredible artists still acknowledged today. Now let's start to break down what defines this new style called impressionism. The term Impressionism developed from a scolding critique by Lewis Lee rod where he described a painting as just a minor impression. This

Impressionism initiated in the 19th century. Characteristics of this movement included small brush strokes and emphasis on light’s changing qualities (Impressionism). An artist known to many for his Impressionism work was Claude Monet. Post-Impressionism also developed in the 19th century. This French movement primarily concentrated on capturing naturalistic lights and colors (Post-Impressionism). Not only did Post-Impressionist paintings focus on light, but they also sought to capture the essence of the portrayed subject (Sayre 1094). Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh were some of the artists who conducted this Post-Impressionism crusade. There are some similarities between these two types of art. They both distinctly use vivid colors and

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

Modernism is an art movement that is characterized by a deliberate departure from tradition to a more expressive form that distinguishes many styles in the arts and literature of the late nineteenth and twentieth century. Emile Bernard was part of this modern art movement as can be seen in his painting, "Breton Woman and Haystacks", painted around 1888. Impressionists were modern artists who tended to paint outside landscapes and street scenes and were concerned with the effects of light. Bernard was a Post-Impressionist artist who considered Impressionism too casual or too naturalistic, and sought a means of exploring emotion in paint. Bernard's work, "Breton Woman and Haystacks", depicts a woman in

Impressionism as an historical art period is best described as a shift in thinking and focus. This paradigm shift, away from realism and toward individualism, began a centuries long transformation of self-expression in art as a whole. Impressionism is generally considered a French movement and is typically defined as spanning from approximately 1867 to 1886. Impressionism is best embodied by and was perhaps initiated by Claud Monet in such world-renowned works as Impressions: soleil levant which lent its name to the style and subsequently the art period as a whole.

People judge a book by its cover. It is the ultimate truth, contrary to the popular adage. Being judgmental of someone or something by the physical features is a natural human instinct. Accordingly, in today’s world, book publishers hire illustrators to make aesthetically pleasing book covers to accompany their writing. They are designed to grasp attention when the books are displayed among other books. This is why I decided to research about why a particular book cover was chosen and how it was related to the story. Katherine Mansfield lived through art periods known as Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Impressionism is “a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual