Impressionism
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Claude Monet and Camille Pizarro
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Characteristics of impressionism will play a role in the next, modern era of paintings
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Loose brushwork and attempt to capture movement
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Movement toward abstraction away from the fixed specificity of objects
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Visual reality as opposed to actual realtiy
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Chiaroscuro – academic painting technique where one begins with a dark color, usually
brown
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Impressionist moved away from dark underpainting and started with a light or dark
canvas, general sense of lightness of the canvas
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Impressionists become interested in shadows, in particular the color of shadows
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The more Pizarro attempts to capture the light and the movement of light, the more the
picture begins to break down
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Monet paints haystacks
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French art at this time had a sense of exhaustion
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The way art is going to survive is by refusing to allow itself to be made use of for
anything
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Art for arts sake
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Monet likes the color, he starts to treat the canvas as a completely separate realm that
color and light don’t follow the same rules
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- Spring '08
- Kester
- Impressionism, Claude Monet, Art Institute of Chicago, Édouard Manet, modern industrial life, academic painting technique
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