Essay on Impressionist effects on Modern Art

Impressionism is an artistic style of painting that originated in France in the 1870s. This style of painting attempts to capture an experience or emotion opposed depicting a scene accurately. Every impressionistic painter has a distinct method of rendering as well as their own distinct set of qualities that reflect the artist themselves. For instance, The Basket Chair by Berthe Morisot and The Orange Trees by Gustave Caillebotte are two impressionist works of art of oils on canvas that contrast in many ways. These two paintings will be compared side by side with an in depth approach comparing the artist’s personal status in society, modernism’s role in the piece, and the execution of composition.

The influence of surrealist art on society on the past centuries has been powerful, and artists like Salvador Dali contributed a lot to this form of art, in this research paper I piece together the career and life then by focusing on one of his remarkable artworks and trying to analyze it and how it affected the target audience of the culture and society and for all these topics which makes the main questions in my research paper I did a research to know more about them so that I can be able to link them together and understands how they affected the society.(1)

Although examining art requires a huge knowledge, my intention in this essay is to analyze a piece of art, besides lyrics and the context, I’m going to examine it by following the steps presented by Alain de Botton.

Edouard Manet was a French painter who used everyday subjects just for an occasion to make a painting. He was a leading artist in the transition from realism to impressionism. Therefore, he is known as the “godfather of Impressionism” (Rosenbum). For some people Manet was the first

Antoine Watteau’s painting, Pilgrimage to Cythera [fig.1], and Francois Boucher’s painting, Cupid a Captive [Fig.2] explain how each of them used different techniques to show their own Rococo style in their own paintings in order to appeal to the

Modernity is emphasized when you are thinking, “what am I looking at?” It is a play on reality, a visual brainteaser, and an attack on the rational. Here is this absurd alien landscape with very naturalistic renderings, where one thing can be something else and meanings are up to interpretation. For example, why have drooping clocks, is this meant to be a provocative idea because time is so regimented, that rules us and is so associated with the industrial world we live in, or is it representing time slipping away? The title of the painting suggests an attack on time and memory, giving the audience a hallucinatory dream world vision – surrealism, a sense of the unexplained, extraordinary and inexplicable.

Claude Monet, An Analysis on Art Specific Purpose: To inform the audience on the significance and formation of Claude Monet’s work. Thesis: Claude Monet’s work did not just become popular because of his unique use of color; but also because of his use of subject matter.

an important link between America and Europe because she is a consummate painter in the Impressionist mode of her own particularized style; but because she was well off enough to purchase Impressionist works and bring them back to the United States, which helped further tighten the link between American appreciation of Impressionism and the Impressionism being produced in France and in Europe in general” (L35, 22:28).

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.

It is ironic that Meissonier played such a large role in the story of the rise of Impressionism because he was known for his detailed and accurate history paintings. In the artistic revolution of Realism and Impressionism, Meissonier became identified with those who blocked these developments. The first chapter discusses how detailed his works are stating his “punctilious craftsmanship” and how even though his painting were small in size, they “rewarded the closest and most prolonged observation.”. This is ironic because the other artists who are discussed were reprimanded for their controversial and noticeable mark-making. In the next chapter, Meissonier is compared to Manet: “Two years earlier a critic had praised Meissonier for painting his bonshommes so realistically that their lips appeared to move. Such mind-boggling manual dexterity and painstaking dedication to minutia were entirely absent from Manet’s work. He applied his paint thickly and in broad brushstrokes, suppressing finer details such as the facial features of his reeling drunkard and taking instead a more abstract approach to visual

The main idea of this chapter the choice between being a Little Fish in a Big Pond or a Big Fish in a Little Pond. Gladwell explains that the decision is not so cut and dry, there are many pros and cons to both choices, and the two choices are entirely different. The chapter opens with the story of the Impressionists, a group of French artists, which consisted of Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir— all very famous painters with legacies present in the modern era. Their road to prominence was made possible because they chose to become Big Fish in a Little Pond. The Impressionists had a different aesthetic than what was typically accepted at the Salon.

Animals are enticing, they seem to have a remarkable grace, ferocity, or stature that catches the eye of artists everywhere, even novelists and authors take a liking to them. The book, “Animals Observed, A look at animals in art” by DORCAS MacCLINTOCK, (Latest copyright date- 1993 by Dorcas MacClintock) is about animals, I learned many important things from reading this book, this book has influenced the way that I feel about animals, and I would recommend this book, to animal lovers as well as, admirers of ancient and impressionism artworks.

Let’s first begins with who Jean Desire Gustave Courbet was. Gustave Courbet was a famous French painter. Courbet was born in Ornans, France on June 10th of 1819. Ornans, France is a filled with forests and pasture’s perfect for realist paintings. At the age of 14 Courbet was already in art training receiving lessons from Pere Baud a former student of a neo-classical painter named Baron Gros. Courbet’s parents hoped he would go off and study law when he moved out in 1837. To there misfortune he had enrolled in at the art academy. At the art academy Courbet received lessons from Flajoulot another famous neo-classicist. At twenty years old Gustave Courbet went to Paris, the European center for art, political,

The Large Bathers, 1898-1905 is the largest of Paul Cezanne's pictures and has been cited as an example of his ideal of composition and his restoration of classic monumentality after its lapse during the nineteenth century. Cézanne’s great achievement forced the young Picasso, Matisse, and many other artists to contend with the implications of Cézanne’s art. This essay will discuss how both Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon are considered as inspired by and breaking free of The Large Bathers.

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