The term, derived from a picture by Monet "Impression, Sunrise" (1872), was intended to be derogatory. Nevertheless, this small band of artists were uniquely important and emerged as the first movement of MODERN ART. The famous movement that began the downfall of Academic art it was a reaction against classical and academic values. The Impressionists painted only what the eye could see in small-scale works of modern scenes, portraits and STILL LIFES. Short brush strokes, a broad PALETTE, and the representation of light are their signature trademarks.
a style of art that began in France in the 1870's and achieved worldwide admiration. The Impressionists were concerned with capturing the effects of light and atmosphere as the eye perceives them under constantly changing conditions. Characters of this style are landscapes painted in short, feathery brushstrokes and bathed in bright and pastel colors of sunlight and shadow.
A style of painting that originated in France about 1870. Paintings of casual subjects, executed outdoors, using divided brush strokes to capture the mood of a particular moment as defined by the transitory effects of light and color. The first Impressionist exhibit was held in 1874.
A movement in art and music from the early Twentieth Century. The most important impressionistic composer was Debussy. ( Lesson 33)
A nineteenth-century French art movement that aimed to capture the immediate visual impressions of light and color and that depicted mainly the everyday activities of modern life. Impressionist paintings are characterized by small short brushstrokes, the use of a white painting ground (as opposed to the traditional use of an ocher ground) and the absence of black and white from the palette. The Impressionist also attempted to make use of contemporary scientific research on color's physical properties.
A style of drawing and painting (1875 and following) begun in France, which stresses an offhand (candid) glimpse of the subject, and an emphasis on the momentary effects of light on color.
Style period in music which mirrored some of the art movement of the same name during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In music, it is principally associated with Debussy, whose music exhibits such characteristics as blurring of traditional formal structures, preference for modality, and the use of instruments for sake of timbre alone (instrumental 'color').
A French art movement of the late nineteenth century that rejected Romanticism in favor of fleeting, informal scenes from everyday life. improvisation The spontaneous, on-the-spot creation of music, preserved today largely in jazz but common in Western music well into the nineteenth century. incidental music Music performed before and during a play to intensify the mood.
A style of painting that started in France during the 1860s. Impressionist artists tried to paint candid glimpses of their subjects showing the effects of sunlight on things at different times of day. The leaders of this movement were: Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903), Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917), Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926), and Pierre Renoir (French, 1841-1919).
Artists using oil paint in tubes were now able to paint away from their studios en plein air (in plain air), or outdoors. This allowed the artist to show accurate weather conditions and the effects of changing daylight using realism to their advantage. Often artist would use dabs of paint or color to show the effects of light and shadow.
a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light
A French movement beginning in the 1860's. Artists painted candid glimpses of their subjects showing the effects of light at different times of the day. A few well know artists are Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and Pierre Renoir.
Impressionism is a style that is characterized by discontinuous brush strokes to create the effect of a particular images, it is most associated with the works of Monet, Degas, and Renoir.
A movement of the late nineteenth century primarily connected with such painters as Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. A form of realistic painting on the way in which changing aspects of light affect human vision; it challenged older models of such representation.
A painting style launched in the 1860s by French artists who sought to convey the effects of sunlight on things at different times of day. Gradually becoming an international art movement, Impressionism was spearheaded by French painters such as Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and Claude Monet (1840-1926). American Impressionism evolved in the latter 19th century, and was led by such famous painters as Mary Cassatt (1845-1926) and John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902).
A late 19th century art movement that sought to break up light into its component parts and capture its fleeting effects on various surfaces through discontinuous strokes of color.
A late-nineteenth-century French school of painting. It focused on transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, with an emphasis on the changing effects of light and color. Monet, Renoir, and Pissarro were important impressionists.
a late 19th-century art movement, centered in France, and characterized by its use of discontinuous strokes of color meant to reproduce the effects of light.
A style of painting that emphasized the immediate effects of sunlight.
19th-century art movement that rejected the historical themes and nostalgic images favored by the academic and romantic painters of the day. The Impressionists looked to the life around them as the inspiration for their paintings of sunlit landscapes, middle-class people at leisure, and mothers with children. The many inventions of the Industrial Revolution included portable oil paints and easels that allowed the artist to break free of the studio and paint en plein air (out of doors), or from sketches done directly on the spot. This approach encouraged the use of spontaneous, unblended brushstrokes of vibrant color by these artists.
Impressionism is not easily defined. Today it refers to an artistic movement that took place in nineteenth-century France from the 1860s to the 1880s. Originally, however, the newspaper critics used the term negatively, implying that the paintings were sketchy "impressions" and not finished works of art. Artists who created these works were united in their rejection of the traditional art upheld by the official Salon and in their concern for depicting modern life, but their methods and artistic aims varied. While Degas and Cassatt generally stressed the primacy of line and form over color and atmosphere, Monet, Renoir, and Pissarro made light and atmosphere the principal aspects of their art. In 1874 artists following this tradition mounted a privately organized exhibition of their own in what became known as the first "Impressionist exhibition." The last Impressionist exhibition was held in 1886.
an art movement beginning in France in the 1870's, founded by an individualistic group of artists including, among others, Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro. All concerned themselves mainly with the components of light and the immediate visual impression of the scene using unconnected colors that were to be mixed by the eye; bright colors and bold brush work were often used to achieve these impressions.
a term usually used to describe paintings, it is used to describe music by composers such as Ravel and Debussy who tried to leave the listener with an impression rather than a definite description
Art movement of the late 19th century characterized by the use of broken brushstrokes, unmixed color and the elimination of detail. Impressionist art captures scenes of everyday life and fleeting moments in nature.
This style of art originated in the 1800's. It was the interpretation of the transient effects of reflected sunlight and color on the subject. The result of this creates movement and light in the painting.
a loose spontaneous style of painting that originated in France about 1870. The impressionist style of painting is characterized chiefly by concentration on the general impression produced by a scene or object and the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light.
An art movement and style started in 1860s France, showing informal scenes using differing natural lighting. Degas, Monet, and Renoir were Impressionist painters.
The use of musical textures, colors and imagery to evoke a phenomenon of nature (such as a sunrise, sunset or rain). Although the dates for this period run from 1875 to 1925, there is evidence that certain composers of the Classical era were fore-runners to the movement; Beethoven, for instance, produced the musical version of a babbling brook and several birds in the 2nd movement of his Sixth Symphony. Chief among the composers most identified as Impressionist is Claude Debussy - yet, he disdained the label.
A painting technique in which the artist concentrates on the changing effects of light and color. Often this style can be characterized by its use of discontinuous brush strokes and heavy impasto.
beginning in France in the 1860's, a significant art movement and style of painting where artists attempted to paint their subjects in a way that showed the changing effects of natural lighting throughout the day. Monet, Cézanne, Sisley, Renoir and Pissarro are members of the group of Impressionist painters. View our collection of Impressionism Paintings
Impressionism is referred to as the most important art movement of the 19th century. The term impressionism came from a painting by Claude Monet. His painting was titled titled Impression Sunrise. Impressionism is about capturing fast fleeting moments with color, light, and surface.
An art movement founded in France in the last third of the 19th century. Impressionist artists sought to break up light into its component colors and render its ephemeral play on various objects. The artist's vision was intensely centered on light and the ways it transforms the visible world. This style of painting is characterized by short brush strokes of bright colors used to recreate visual impressions of the subject and to capture the light, climate and atmosphere of the subject at a specific moment in time. The chosen colors represent light which is broken down into its spectrum components and recombined by the eyes into another color when viewed at a distance (an optical mixture). The term was first used in 1874 by a journalist ridiculing a landscape by Monet called Impression - Sunrise.
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French art movement of the late 19th century characterised by the representation of a scene, object, or figure through the application of paint in dabs of colour in order to give an impression of the view rather than an accurate, photographic-like depiction. Exponents of this movement include Claude Monet.
A theory or style of painting originating and developed in France during the 1870s, characterized by concentration on the immediate visual impression produced by a scene and by the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light.
The use of light and colour painted 'live' directly onto the canvas.
a late 19th-century style in which the artist uses sound or visual imagery to capture moments of transient reality. Painters usually did this by applying short strokes, or dabs, of pure color. Musicians did it by suggesting moods and places through lush, shifting harmonies and vague rhythms.
A movement in French painting, in the second half of the 19th century, that strove to seize the mutability of the surrounding world and the impression that it produces. It influenced art around the world in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
A French artistic movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
An art style of the late 19th century, principally in France, in which artists tried to capture in paint the fleeting effects - or impressions - of light, shade, and colour on natural forms.
An artistic movement of the late 19th century, especially prominent in France and among painters. It emphasized the evocation of the sensory experience of natural phenomena.
A movement in painting in which the emphasis on light and color, loose brush strokes, ordinary subject matter; creates the "impression" of a moment in time. Dabs and strokes of color are used to depict the natural appearances of objects and reflected light.
Impressionism was the most important movement in art in the 19 th century. Traditional linear forms of representation were abandoned and the nature of color and light thoroughly explored. Originating and developed in France during the 1870s, it is characterized chiefly by concentration on the general impression produced by a scene or an object and by the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light, the concept of "pure painting". The Impressionists had been influenced by Japanese art. Leading figures: Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Pissaro, Cézanne, Sickert, Mancini.
A movement among late nineteenth-century French painters who sought to present a true representation of light and color. Working primarily outdoors, such artists applied small touches of paint to catch fleeting impressions of the scenes before them. Many American artists adopted the style.
Characterised by paintings of everyday subjects, executed outdoors, using divided brush strokes to capture the mood of a particular moment as defined by the transitory effects of light and colour. The style of painting originated in France about 1870 and was first exhibited in 1874.
An art movement founded in France in the last 3rd of the 19th century. The artist's sought to break up light into its component colors and render its emphemeral play on various objects. The artist's vision was intensely centered on light and the way it transforms the visible world The short brush-strokes of bright color are chosen to represent light which is broken down into its spectrum components and re-combined by the eyes into another color when viewed at a distance.
Impressionism was a style of painting characterized by short brush strokes and bright colors used to recreate the impression of light on objects. Mary Cassatt was a leading American impressionist, though her work was ignored in her lifetime.
A style of painting in which the reality of a scene or object is loosely interpreted in a work so that the strongest impressions of form and colour are retained. Originally a French movement, some of the more famous exponents were Monet and Degas. The word originates from some of the early exhibitions of their work, in which critics dismissed their work as only a vague impression of the true reality.
Referred to as the most important art movement of the 19th century, impressionism is still widely practiced today, and influenced many successive art movements. The term impressionism emerged in the 1860's and came from a painting by Claude Monet (1840-1926) entitled Impression Sunrise. The term became widely used to describe the painting methods used by artists of this time period, including French painters Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and Paul Cezanne (1839-1906). Impressionists usually worked quickly in open air, and were very concerned with capturing light, colour and surface.
Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists, who began exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari.
Influenced by the Impressionist art movement, many writers adopted a style that relied on associations. The Dutch Tachtigers explicitly tried to incorporate impressionism into their novels, poems, and other literary works. Much of what we would call "impressionist" literature is actually subsumed into a number of categories, especially Symbolism, with its chief exponents being Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, and Verlaine.