Impressionism

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Impressionism
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Claude Monet Impression-Sunrise, 1872
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Notice the lack of detail
Monet is conveying a quick impression of how
this scene looks at this moment, before the light
changes and it looks different.
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Claude Monet The Bridge at Argenteuil, 1874
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Once again the sun dances on the waterMonet is
fascinated by this.
Notice too the brush strokes lots of small
dashes rather than long, fluid strokes. Thats
why the water sparkles.
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This technique become even more evident in the
following details of the painting.
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The following detail is of those bushes in the
lower right hand corner of the painting. Up close
they really dont look like anything other than
dots and squiggles of paint. At a distance your
eye mixes these into an image that becomes the
bushes.
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Monet Rouen Cathedral Rouen Cathedral,
Sunlight, 1894
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