![]() ![]() For this reason, many critics faulted Impressionist paintings for their unfinished appearance and what they deemed amateurish quality. The Impressionists loosened their brushwork, lightened their palettes and abandoned traditional linear perspective. These artists were moving distinctly away from depictions of idealized forms and perfect symmetry in order to paint the world as they saw it, imperfect in a myriad of ways. Part of the artist’s goal was, in fact, to capture a split second of life, an ephemeral moment in time on the canvas: the impression. ![]() It gained its name after a hostile French critic, reviewing the first major Impressionist exhibition of 1874, seized the title of Claude Monet’s painting “Impression, Sunrise,” and accused the group of painting nothing but impressions. Impressionism can be considered the first distinctly modern movement in painting. Go early to have the rooms and art to yourself! A BIT ABOUT THE MOVEMENT I believe they were the forefathers (and mothers) of abstract painting…this is probably why I have always loved their work! One of my favorite museums and artists: “Water Lilies” by Claude Monet at Orangerie Museum in Paris, France. These artists were focused on painting the light and feeling in a particular moment in time rather than realistically recording exactly what they saw. Impressionism is a prime example of a movement that broke away from the realism that came before it and turned into something that allowed more creative freedom to paint colors and things that might not actually be there. The style that caught my eye in those classes and remains my favorite today is the work of Impressionists like Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Degas. Artistic style both evolved and grew aesthetically into the period that followed it, or the style influenced a major shift away from what had been done in the past. Moving through those art history classes, I began to understand the artistic styles of the different eras. Information about the Lascaux Cave art, in southern France, was literally the first page in my book from that class. Art History 101 begins with studying the earliest known prehistoric art and researching the significance of prehistoric cave paintings. One of the requirements to receive my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree was to take a number of history credits. ![]()
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