Impressionism

oooh, look at all the pretty colors

STYLE ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB

STYLE

• subjects from lower categories
  • landscape
    • plein air painting
  • still life
  • genre
  • portraiture
• urban and modern scenes
  • ballet
  • Paris scenes (attractions and inhabitants)
  • domestic interiors (baby, tea, reading)
• social content
  • working class
  • sexual commerce
• psychological detachment of figures from each other and viewer
  • isolation of individual in modern world
• weird, sharp, dizzying angles
• lighting
  • erie effects for modern look at ballet
  • intense sunlight and use of compolimentary colors to make appear brighter
  • transient effects of light
  • scientific appreciation of colors and properties of light
  • use blue, violets or nearby object colors for shadows
  • neglect form
• flattness of composition
  • compressed space
  • titled plane
  • decorated surfaces, patterns (Influence of Japanese prints)
• fleeting, slice of life
  • cropped images
  • not staged
• free brushwork

ARTISTS and IMAGES

Caillebotte Paris: A Rainy Day 1877
Degas Ballet Rehersal: Adagio 1876
Renoir Le Moulin de la Galette 1876
Manet Bar at the Folies_Bergere 1882
Monet Luncheon (Deocrative Panel) 1874
Monet Rouen Cathedral: The Portal 1894
Mary Cassatt The Bath 1892
Degas Viscount Lepic and His Daughters 1873

VOCAB

Baron Haussmann, Prefect of the Seine, "Hassmannization"
Plein air painting

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