French Impressionism Test Review

En plein air

outside

En plein air period

refers to artists in this period who began to paint outdoors

ELBOW

How to tell if a painting is impressionist

• Everyday life: Depicting normal people, urban scenes, and modern life rather than grand historical or mythological subjects.

• Light: A strong emphasis on accurately portraying the shifting qualities of natural light and shadow.

• Brushwork: Short, thick, and highly visible brush strokes instead of smooth, blended realism.

• Outdoors: A focus on plein air (painting outside) to directly experience nature.

• Weather: Capturing ephemeral atmospheric conditions like rain, wind, and mist.

ELBOW meaning

During impressionism, artists were trying to get rid of the color...

black

During impressionism, artists used more of these type of colors

pastels

Light, weather, seasons were key for...............

series paintings

Impressionism

a style of painting mostly associated with artists of the 19th century. Seeks to recreate the artist's general impression of the scene.

Painted "Water Lilies'

Claude Monet

Giverny

the place in france where Monet lived.

Monet was a big fan of...

Japenese prints

Unlike some other artists, Monet could

support family with art commissions

Beginning of Impressionism

impressionists paintings were scorned and banned

Eventually Impressionism

artists kept going and paintings became very popular

Neo-Impressionism

Synonym for Pointilism

Pointilism

used small dots to create a big picture

George Seurat

Painted Dimanche a la grande jatte

Pierre- Auguste Renoir

painter of people, worked in porcelain factory

Camille Pissarro

landscapes, peasants, dabbled in pointillism

Alfred Sisley

landscapes. Born in Paris to british parents

Paul Gauguin

Tahiti/Tahitian women, lived with VanGogh

Paul Cezanne

influenced Cubism

Manet

father of impressionism, wanted to be in the Salon

Pablo Picasso

cubism, periods: Blue, Rose, African

Mary Cassatt

American painter. Beaches, women and children

Henri Matisse

expressionist, collages, scissors

Vincent VanGogh

sunflowers, mental illness, heavy thick paint

Marc Chagall

jewish, russian, stained glass and tile

Toulous-Lautrec

genetic disorder, Moulin Rouge, posters

Le Salon

where works were displayed to be bought

Gustave Caillebotte

engineer, wealthy, Rainy day in Paris

Edgar Degas

Ballerinas, little dancer of 14 years sculpture, did not like women

Pallet knife

tool used by cubists and post-impressionists to lay flat blocks of color

Berthe Morisot

one of two women, French, painted soft scenes, married to the brother of another impressionist

Jean Frederic Bazille

talented but died young in the military