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Claude Monet Impressionist Movement
479 wordsImpressionism relates to a style of painting and composing from the last third of the 19 th century. It was started by Claude Monet and his paintings and then worked its way into Debussy's compositions. In painting terms this style was characterized by short brush strokes of bright colorado represent the effect of light on an object (Wechsler 6). The music of the impressionist composers contained hidden images and portrayed reality through music. The impressionist era was based mainly on light a...
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Claude Monet Van Gogh
1,230 wordsIn 1874, fifty-five artists held the first independent group show of Impressionist art. The unfriendly reviewer Louis Leroy to a canvas by Claude Monet first applied the name impressionism in 1874; it has come to be used very freely. In easiest terms, French Impressionism was an especially undersized, avant-garde movement whose affiliates tested from 1870 to 1880 with painterly habits to attain light on canvas. Impressionism entails a certain technique, primarily the acquirement of light on canv...
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Claude Monet Edgar Degas
1,430 wordsImpressionism was the most important Art movement of the nineteenth century, having a great influence on the development of Modern Art. The name impressionism itself comes from a painting Impression sunrise created by Claude Monet (a member of the group) being influenced by Japanese Art 1863 was considered to be the start of Impressionism. However the name of the group did not appear until 1874, when the first exhibition was held. Impressionism consisted of landscapes, seascapes, snow scenes, ba...
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Claude Monet Industrial Revolution
1,995 words"The Impressionists were subjective painters, who looked at nature in their own individual ways. The results were, hardly surprisingly, very different, when we consider the divergent styles of say Monet, Degas, Renoir, Gauguin, and Seurat. Perhaps the greatest achievement of Impressionism was to capture the effect of real sunlight on canvas. It is possibly this that made their pictures the most popular, and the most expensive, of the 20 th century. " Impressionism began in the late 1800 s in Fra...
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Late Nineteenth Century Edgar Degas
718 wordsThe impressionist age was a time of artistic rebellion to the common standards of art in late nineteenth century France. Rather than painting in the traditionalist fashion, focusing on exotic subject matter, powerful figureheads and historic scenes, impressionists painted everyday life as it was. The impressionists were known for using bright, unmixed colors to illustrate luminosity through texture. They opted for less detail in order to create an overall effect. "The impressionists allowed thei...
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Vincent Van Gogh French Painter
1,254 wordsPostimpressionism Postimpressionism was a movement in late- 19 th-century French painting that emphasized the artist's personal response to a subject. Postimpressionism takes its name from an art movement that immediately preceded it: Impressionism. But whereas impressionist painters concentrated on the depiction of a subject's immediate appearance, postimpressionist's focused on emotional or spiritual meanings that the subject might convey. Although impressionist artists interpreted what they s...
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Paul Cezanne Modern Olympia'
2,612 wordsPaul Cezanne's 'A Modern Olympia' Introduction Paul Cezanne's oil on canvas painting of 'A Modern Olympia' is a 46 by 55. 5 cm. canvas of 1873 - 74. The theme of abduction and rape is one that is repeated in Cezanne's work as in his 'Abduction' of 1867, and after all this purports to be a painting of a slave in a harem. It is a variation of Manet's earlier work of 1863, which established Manet as an artist. People claimed to be shocked by Manet's portrait, but nevertheless flocked to see it in t...
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Upper Middle Class 19 Th Century
1,059 wordsClaude Monet Claude Monet was one of the worlds famous French artists. He had influenced greatly one significant period of cultural growth called Impressionism. One book by Raymond Cogniat, called Monet and His World highlights the story of the maestro and his artistic achievements. This lively illustrated book is written with great detail. Using explanations, illustrations, pictures and paintings, Cogniat helps to illustrate not only the life of Monet, but also the world of Impressionism, art a...
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Jean Francois Impressionist Movement
1,493 wordsCezanne Paul Cezanne, who was the son of a wealthy banker, became a painter in the 1860 s in Paris when he quit his studies of Law. By 1874 he was painting landscapes in the Impressionist manner and had some of his work included in their first exhibition held during that very same year. He painted in the Impressionistic manner, but sheared off in a different direction to the main body of Impressionist painters. The main body of Impressionist painters were concerned with the fleeting effects of l...
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Rest Of His Life Claude Monet
1,838 wordsI have always been interested in the impressionist style of art, especially the work of Claude Monet. When making my book selection I took this under consideration and chose a book written by Raymond Cogniat entitled Monet and His World. This lively illustrated book is written with great detail. Using explanations, illustrations, pictures and paintings, Cogniat helps to illustrate not only the life of Monet, but also the world of Impressionism, art and French society during Monet's time. You are...
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Impressionist Movement Van Gogh
640 wordsArt Post Impressionism Post Impressionism Art critics first used the term post-impressionistic in 1911 to loosely describe the work of a few artists whose paintings reflect Impressionistic principles, but were created after the movement had lost favour in the late seventeenth century (around 1885). Significant artists whose works have been defined in this category include Paul C zanne (1839 - 1906), Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) and Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890). Post-Impressionists, these few in ...
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