Impressionism

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Impressionism

• Subjects and Styles

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Pissarro Jean Louis
David
Example of Salon Style
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Modern World

• Reacted Strongly against the dead art of the
  past.
• More ethical to document own experiences.

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Sensory Impressions
Degas
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Sensory Impressions

• Images appear to be accidental and spontaneous.
• Artists did make numerous preliminary sketches.
• Wanted the work to be uncontrived.

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Public Places

• En plain air or out of doors
• Depicting sunlight and its effects on objects .
• This completely changed the darker palette
  characteristic of the Salon.

Monet
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Public Places
Renoir
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Public Places
Cassatt and Manet
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Public Places
Cassatt and Degas
La Loge 1879
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Optical Color Mixing

• Colors juxtaposed on the canvas and fused by the
  eye at a certain distance.
• Made a visual vibration that recreated the sense
  of sparkling sunlight.

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Seurat Detail
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Optical Color Mixing
Seurat
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Optical Color Mixing
Monet
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Sense of Immediacy

• Moment of the artists visual experience was
  directly transcribed onto the canvas.
• Use of broken brushwork and the transience of the
  subjects such a running horses and people at work.

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Sense of Immediacy
Cassatt and Morisot
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Influences

• Development of Paris and urban sensibility.
• Leisure activities.
• Technology and photography.
• Rise of the middle class.
• Commercially available oil paint

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Influences

• Japanese prints, flat, bright color.

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Cassatt
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Morisot