Impressionism

=Impressionism-1860-1920 =


 * Term coined in 1874 - artist is giving his/her impression of a scene
 * philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting-en plein air means literally to paint in open air
 * Monet invented impressionism movement with his painting Impression: Sunrise - 1873
 * invention of tubes of paint allows for mobility of artists....they can now carry paints with them.

@http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/impressionism-france.html [|HOW Impressionists Got Their Name]

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media type="youtube" key="Iics7KH_rLE" height="315" width="420" = = =Pierre Auguste Renoir - 1841-1919 =


 * Feel good paintings - favored to depict the happy times of reality
 * Leisure life with friends and family, middle class
 * Celebrates beauty, especially feminine sensuality
 * Influenced by Rubens
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Paintings known for their vibrant light and saturated colors
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Details are suggested and fuse with the background

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 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sculptor, photographer, printmaker, painter and drawer (pastels)
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ballet is what he’s known most for Also painted about horse racing
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Believed the artist should lead a solitary life
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Didn’t think of himself as an impressionist and hated the term, he was sort of an anti-impressionist, never worked en plein air and didn’t work rapidly and spontaneously like the other impressionists
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Personality extremely curmudgeonly, lived alone, Very argumentative, died alone, nearly blind

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 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">American painter and printmaker
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Went to art school in Philadelphia at the Academy, much prejudice against her because she’s a woman
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Friends with Degas
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lived most of her life in France
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject matter includes the private lives of women, especially mothers and their children
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fought for women’s rights during early 1900s

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