impressionism

impressionism

• 1870

• generation reject realism

• rejected religious and mythological themes

• various individual style but similar subject matter: urban paris, nature, middle/upperclass and city scenes, leisures

france historical context of impressionism

• communist manifesto is rejected

• people want to unite

• photography is largely used by communists so artists REJECT realism

Claude Monet

impressionist painter that named the movement

• painted plein air

• nationalistic art + impressionism

• studied light and color

impression sunrise

painting that named the impressionist art movement

art salons of france 1800’s

• very selective

• salon de venus because that was popular

salon de refuses

art salon made by napoleon for rejected art

Manet

rich guy that liked making controversial art referencing classics including

Luncheon on the Grass

olympia prostitute

independent society of painters sculptors and engravers

group after refusal

japonisme

japanese art style that greatly inspired art in france

Cassat

female impressionist artist

• timeless subject matter: mother and child

• inspired by japonisme

renoir

• upper-middle class subject matter

• more urban people than nature

• great study of light

• shifts from being rlly impressionistic fearing he would be lost after trends

Degas

• well off, banking family, aristocratic

• likes working inside NOT outide

• subject matter: formal leisure activities (esp: the ballet, races)

• focused on light and fleeting effect of art, MOTION

• starts using pastels later in his career

caillebotte

realistic rendering, impressionistic style

Pissaro

urban subject matter and quick brush strokes

• used photos to help compose scenes

• sparatic nature through a lof of figures

modernist

Whistler

• abstract arrangment of shapes and colors

• emphasized rise of modernist art movement

Cassat and Morisot

female impressionist artists that largely painted female subjects in a motherly and non-perverted way