French Impressionism
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French ImpressionismBy: Margot H.
What is Impressionism?
Impressionism was an artistic movement that developed mainly in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
The style of impressionism focuses on small stokes of mainly primary colors, and the traditional impressionist painters did not use black paint in their works
The impressionist painters were able to accurately capture the look of sunlight and movement
Most impressionists painted en plein air, which is translated to mean “in the open air” and means that they painted outside rather than in a studio
The French public were harsh in their reviews of impressionism at first, but eventually they came to appreciate the new style
Examples of French Impressionism
Waterlilies and Japanese Bridge
- Claude Monet
Banks of the Seine at Asnieres- Auguste Renoir
Famous French Impressionists
Frédéric Bazille Eugène Boudin Félix Bracquemond Marie Bracquemond Mary Cassatt Gustave Caillebotte Paul Cézanne Gustave Colin Edgar Degas Jean-Louis Forain Paul Gauguin Eva Gonzalès
Armand Guillaumin Stanislas Lépine Edouard Manet Claude Monet Berthe Morisot Camille Pissarro Auguste Renoir Emile Schuffenecker Georges Seurat Paul Signac Alfred Sisley
The Impact of Impressionism in
America It was introduced in the United States around 1885-1890 Many leading American artists traveled to Paris, learned
the style of impressionism, then brought it back to America where it was accepted a lot more widely than it had been in France
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Californian artists created a new style based off of French Impressionism and called it Californian Impressionism; modern landscape painting is based off of this style
In 1887, the first exhibition of a single impressionist artist was held at Boston's St. Botolph Club for Claude Monet
In 1898, ten artists (known as “The Ten”) who were inspired by impressionism left the National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists and lead the way to modern art by defending impressionism from skeptics and helping other American artists escape from the outdated art concepts of the past
Famous American Impressionists
Childe Hassam* Theodore Robinson Edmund C. Tarbell Willard Metcalf Daniel Garber Philip Leslie Hale William Glackens Ernest Lawson Colin Campbell Cooper Frederick Carl Frieseke
John Henry Twachtman*
J. Alden Weir* Thomas W. Dewing* Joseph De Camp* Frank W. Benson* Willard Leroy Metcalf* Edmund Tarbell* Robert Reid* E.E. Simmons*
*Part of “The Ten”
“There are no lines in nature, only areas of color,
one against another.”-Édouard Manet
Childe Hassam
Claude Monet
Frederic Bazille