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19th-century fine art movement

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively modest, sparse, withal visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience. Impressionism originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s.

The Impressionists faced harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. The name of the way derives from the title of a Claude Monet piece of work, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satirical review published in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari. The development of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous styles in other media that became known as impressionist music and impressionist literature.

Overview [edit]

Radicals in their time, early Impressionists violated the rules of academic painting. They constructed their pictures from freely brushed colours that took precedence over lines and contours, following the example of painters such every bit Eugène Delacroix and J. M. W. Turner. They likewise painted realistic scenes of mod life, and often painted outdoors. Previously, nevertheless lifes and portraits as well equally landscapes were usually painted in a studio.^[1] The Impressionists found that they could capture the momentary and transient effects of sunlight by painting outdoors or en plein air. They portrayed overall visual effects instead of details, and used short "broken" brush strokes of mixed and pure unmixed colour—non blended smoothly or shaded, as was customary—to achieve an effect of intense colour vibration.

Impressionism emerged in France at the same time that a number of other painters, including the Italian artists known as the Macchiaioli, and Winslow Homer in the United states, were also exploring plein-air painting. The Impressionists, nonetheless, developed new techniques specific to the manner. Encompassing what its adherents argued was a unlike way of seeing, it is an fine art of immediacy and movement, of candid poses and compositions, of the play of low-cal expressed in a bright and varied utilize of colour.

The public, at first hostile, gradually came to believe that the Impressionists had captured a fresh and original vision, even if the fine art critics and art establishment disapproved of the new style. Past recreating the sensation in the eye that views the subject area, rather than delineating the details of the subject field, and by creating a welter of techniques and forms, Impressionism is a forerunner of various painting styles, including Neo-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism.

Ancestry [edit]

In the heart of the 19th century—a time of change, every bit Emperor Napoleon Three rebuilt Paris and waged war—the Académie des Beaux-Arts dominated French art. The Académie was the preserver of traditional French painting standards of content and style. Historical subjects, religious themes, and portraits were valued; landscape and even so life were not. The Académie preferred carefully finished images that looked realistic when examined closely. Paintings in this mode were made upwardly of precise brush strokes carefully composite to hide the artist'south hand in the work.^[3] Colour was restrained and often toned down further by the application of a gilded varnish.^[iv]

The Académie had an annual, juried art show, the Salon de Paris, and artists whose work was displayed in the show won prizes, garnered commissions, and enhanced their prestige. The standards of the juries represented the values of the Académie, represented by the works of such artists as Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel.

In the early 1860s, 4 immature painters—Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frédéric Bazille—met while studying under the academic artist Charles Gleyre. They discovered that they shared an involvement in painting landscape and gimmicky life rather than historical or mythological scenes. Following a practice that had become increasingly popular by mid-century, they oft ventured into the countryside together to pigment in the open air,^[5] but not for the purpose of making sketches to exist developed into advisedly finished works in the studio, as was the usual custom.^{[half dozen]} By painting in sunlight directly from nature, and making bold use of the vivid constructed pigments that had become available since the beginning of the century, they began to develop a lighter and brighter manner of painting that extended further the Realism of Gustave Courbet and the Barbizon school. A favourite meeting place for the artists was the Café Guerbois on Avenue de Clichy in Paris, where the discussions were often led by Édouard Manet, whom the younger artists greatly admired. They were soon joined by Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, and Armand Guillaumin.^[seven]

During the 1860s, the Salon jury routinely rejected nearly half of the works submitted by Monet and his friends in favour of works past artists faithful to the approved mode.^[8] In 1863, the Salon jury rejected Manet's The Lunch on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe) primarily because it depicted a nude woman with 2 clothed men at a picnic. While the Salon jury routinely accustomed nudes in historical and allegorical paintings, they condemned Manet for placing a realistic nude in a contemporary setting.^[nine] The jury'south severely worded rejection of Manet's painting appalled his admirers, and the unusually large number of rejected works that year perturbed many French artists.

Later on Emperor Napoleon III saw the rejected works of 1863, he decreed that the public be immune to estimate the work themselves, and the Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Refused) was organized. While many viewers came merely to laugh, the Salon des Refusés drew attention to the existence of a new tendency in art and attracted more than visitors than the regular Salon.^[10]

Artists' petitions requesting a new Salon des Refusés in 1867, and again in 1872, were denied. In December 1873, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas and several other artists founded the Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs ("Cooperative and Bearding Association of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers") to showroom their artworks independently.^[11] Members of the association were expected to forswear participation in the Salon.^[12] The organizers invited a number of other progressive artists to bring together them in their countdown exhibition, including the older Eugène Boudin, whose example had first persuaded Monet to adopt plein air painting years before.^[13] Another painter who greatly influenced Monet and his friends, Johan Jongkind, declined to participate, as did Édouard Manet. In total, xxx artists participated in their starting time exhibition, held in April 1874 at the studio of the photographer Nadar.

The critical response was mixed. Monet and Cézanne received the harshest attacks. Critic and humorist Louis Leroy wrote a scathing review in the newspaper Le Charivari in which, making wordplay with the championship of Claude Monet'south Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), he gave the artists the name by which they became known. Derisively titling his commodity The Exhibition of the Impressionists, Leroy alleged that Monet's painting was at most, a sketch, and could inappreciably exist termed a finished work.

He wrote, in the grade of a dialogue between viewers,

"Impression—I was certain of it. I was only telling myself that, since I was impressed, at that place had to be some impression in it ... and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more than finished than that seascape."^[14]

The term Impressionist quickly gained favour with the public. It was also accustomed by the artists themselves, even though they were a diverse group in style and temperament, unified primarily by their spirit of independence and rebellion. They exhibited together—albeit with shifting membership—8 times between 1874 and 1886. The Impressionists' style, with its loose, spontaneous brushstrokes, would before long become synonymous with modern life.^[4]

Monet, Sisley, Morisot, and Pissarro may exist considered the "purest" Impressionists, in their consequent pursuit of an fine art of spontaneity, sunlight, and color. Degas rejected much of this, as he believed in the primacy of drawing over colour and belittled the practice of painting outdoors.^[15] Renoir turned away from Impressionism for a time during the 1880s, and never entirely regained his delivery to its ideas. Édouard Manet, although regarded by the Impressionists as their leader,^[16] never abandoned his liberal employ of black equally a colour (while Impressionists avoided its use and preferred to obtain darker colours by mixing), and never participated in the Impressionist exhibitions. He connected to submit his works to the Salon, where his painting Spanish Vocaliser had won a 2nd class medal in 1861, and he urged the others to do besides, arguing that "the Salon is the existent field of boxing" where a reputation could be made.^[17]

Among the artists of the core group (minus Bazille, who had died in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870), defections occurred as Cézanne, followed afterward by Renoir, Sisley, and Monet, abstained from the group exhibitions and then they could submit their works to the Salon. Disagreements arose from bug such as Guillaumin's membership in the group, championed by Pissarro and Cézanne against opposition from Monet and Degas, who thought him unworthy.^[18] Degas invited Mary Cassatt to display her work in the 1879 exhibition, but also insisted on the inclusion of Jean-François Raffaëlli, Ludovic Lepic, and other realists who did not represent Impressionist practices, causing Monet in 1880 to accuse the Impressionists of "opening doors to showtime-come daubers".^[19] The group divided over invitations to Paul Signac and Georges Seurat to exhibit with them in 1886. Pissarro was the only creative person to show at all eight Impressionist exhibitions.

The individual artists achieved few financial rewards from the Impressionist exhibitions, merely their art gradually won a caste of public acceptance and support. Their dealer, Durand-Ruel, played a major role in this equally he kept their work earlier the public and arranged shows for them in London and New York. Although Sisley died in poverty in 1899, Renoir had a bang-up Salon success in 1879.^[20] Monet became secure financially during the early 1880s and so did Pissarro past the early 1890s. By this time the methods of Impressionist painting, in a diluted grade, had become commonplace in Salon art.^[21]

Impressionist techniques [edit]

Mary Cassatt, Lydia Leaning on Her Arms (in a theatre box), 1879

French painters who prepared the fashion for Impressionism include the Romantic colourist Eugène Delacroix, the leader of the realists Gustave Courbet, and painters of the Barbizon school such equally Théodore Rousseau. The Impressionists learned much from the work of Johan Barthold Jongkind, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Eugène Boudin, who painted from nature in a direct and spontaneous way that prefigured Impressionism, and who befriended and brash the younger artists.

A number of identifiable techniques and working habits contributed to the innovative style of the Impressionists. Although these methods had been used by previous artists—and are often conspicuous in the work of artists such every bit Frans Hals, Diego Velázquez, Peter Paul Rubens, John Constable, and J. M. Due west. Turner—the Impressionists were the commencement to employ them all together, and with such consistency. These techniques include:

• Short, thick strokes of pigment apace capture the essence of the subject, rather than its details. The paint is often practical impasto.
• Colours are applied side by side with every bit little mixing equally possible, a technique that exploits the principle of simultaneous contrast to make the colour appear more vivid to the viewer.
• Greys and dark tones are produced by mixing complementary colours. Pure impressionism avoids the use of black paint.
• Wet paint is placed into wet paint without waiting for successive applications to dry, producing softer edges and intermingling of colour.
• Impressionist paintings exercise not exploit the transparency of thin pigment films (glazes), which earlier artists manipulated carefully to produce furnishings. The impressionist painting surface is typically opaque.
• The paint is applied to a white or light-coloured basis. Previously, painters often used night grey or strongly coloured grounds.
• The play of natural calorie-free is emphasized. Close attending is paid to the reflection of colours from object to object. Painters often worked in the evening to produce effets de soir—the shadowy effects of evening or twilight.
• In paintings made en plein air (outdoors), shadows are boldly painted with the blueish of the sky equally information technology is reflected onto surfaces, giving a sense of freshness previously not represented in painting. (Blue shadows on snow inspired the technique.)

New applied science played a role in the evolution of the style. Impressionists took advantage of the mid-century introduction of premixed paints in tin tubes (resembling modernistic toothpaste tubes), which allowed artists to work more than spontaneously, both outdoors and indoors.^[22] Previously, painters made their ain paints individually, by grinding and mixing dry pigment powders with linseed oil, which were then stored in creature bladders.^[23]

Many vivid synthetic pigments became commercially bachelor to artists for the beginning time during the 19th century. These included cobalt blue, viridian, cadmium xanthous, and synthetic ultramarine blue, all of which were in use by the 1840s, earlier Impressionism.^[24] The Impressionists' manner of painting made bold use of these pigments, and of even newer colours such as cerulean blue,^[4] which became commercially available to artists in the 1860s.^[24]

The Impressionists' progress toward a brighter style of painting was gradual. During the 1860s, Monet and Renoir sometimes painted on canvases prepared with the traditional scarlet-brown or grey ground.^[25] Past the 1870s, Monet, Renoir, and Pissarro usually chose to paint on grounds of a lighter grey or biscuit colour, which functioned as a middle tone in the finished painting.^[25] By the 1880s, some of the Impressionists had come to prefer white or slightly fair grounds, and no longer allowed the footing color a significant role in the finished painting.^[26]

Content and composition [edit]

Prior to the Impressionists, other painters, notably such 17th-century Dutch painters as January Steen, had emphasized common subjects, just their methods of limerick were traditional. They arranged their compositions and so that the main subject field commanded the viewer's attention. J. Thou. Due west. Turner, while an creative person of the Romantic era, anticipated the style of impressionism with his artwork.^[27] The Impressionists relaxed the boundary betwixt subject and groundwork so that the consequence of an Impressionist painting frequently resembles a snapshot, a part of a larger reality captured as if past chance.^[28] Photography was gaining popularity, and equally cameras became more portable, photographs became more than candid. Photography inspired Impressionists to correspond momentary activeness, not only in the fleeting lights of a landscape, only in the twenty-four hour period-to-day lives of people.^{[29] [xxx]}

The development of Impressionism tin can be considered partly as a reaction by artists to the claiming presented past photography, which seemed to devalue the artist'southward skill in reproducing reality. Both portrait and landscape paintings were deemed somewhat scarce and lacking in truth as photography "produced lifelike images much more than efficiently and reliably".^[31]

In spite of this, photography actually inspired artists to pursue other means of creative expression, and rather than compete with photography to emulate reality, artists focused "on the one thing they could inevitably do ameliorate than the photograph—by farther developing into an art form its very subjectivity in the formulation of the image, the very subjectivity that photography eliminated".^[31] The Impressionists sought to express their perceptions of nature, rather than create exact representations. This allowed artists to describe subjectively what they saw with their "tacit imperatives of taste and conscience".^[32] Photography encouraged painters to exploit aspects of the painting medium, similar colour, which photography then lacked: "The Impressionists were the offset to consciously offer a subjective alternative to the photograph".^[31]

Some other major influence was Japanese ukiyo-e art prints (Japonism). The art of these prints contributed significantly to the "snapshot" angles and unconventional compositions that became characteristic of Impressionism. An example is Monet's Jardin à Sainte-Adresse, 1867, with its bold blocks of colour and composition on a stiff diagonal camber showing the influence of Japanese prints.^[34]

Edgar Degas was both an avid photographer and a collector of Japanese prints.^[35] His The Trip the light fantastic toe Class (La classe de danse) of 1874 shows both influences in its asymmetrical limerick. The dancers are seemingly defenseless off baby-sit in various awkward poses, leaving an expanse of empty floor space in the lower right quadrant. He likewise captured his dancers in sculpture, such as the Little Dancer of Fourteen Years.

Women Impressionists [edit]

Impressionists, in varying degrees, were looking for ways to depict visual feel and contemporary subjects.^[36] Women Impressionists were interested in these same ideals only had many social and career limitations compared to male Impressionists. In particular, they were excluded from the imagery of the bourgeois social sphere of the boulevard, cafe, and dance hall.^[37] Besides equally imagery, women were excluded from the determinative discussions that resulted in meetings in those places; that was where male Impressionists were able to form and share ideas about Impressionism.^[37] In the academic realm, women were believed to be incapable of treatment complex subjects which led teachers to restrict what they taught female person students.^[38] It was also considered unladylike to excel in art since women's true talents were and then believed to middle on homemaking and mothering.^[38]

Nonetheless several women were able to find success during their lifetime, even though their careers were affected past personal circumstances – Bracquemond, for example, had a husband who was resentful of her piece of work which caused her to surrender painting.^[39] The four most well known, namely, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond, and Berthe Morisot, are, and were, often referred to as the 'Women Impressionists'. Their participation in the series of viii Impressionist exhibitions that took place in Paris from 1874 to 1886 varied: Morisot participated in seven, Cassatt in 4, Bracquemond in 3, and Gonzalès did not participate.^{[39] [40]}

The critics of the time lumped these iv together without regard to their personal styles, techniques, or field of study matter.^[41] Critics viewing their works at the exhibitions oftentimes attempted to acknowledge the women artists' talents only circumscribed them within a express notion of femininity.^[42] Arguing for the suitability of Impressionist technique to women'south way of perception, Parisian critic S.C. de Soissons wrote:

Ane tin understand that women have no originality of thought, and that literature and music have no feminine character; but surely women know how to observe, and what they see is quite different from that which men run into, and the art which they put in their gestures, in their toilet, in the decoration of their environment is sufficient to give is the idea of an instinctive, of a peculiar genius which resides in each one of them.^[43]

While Impressionism legitimized the domestic social life as subject matter, of which women had intimate knowledge, it also tended to limit them to that discipline matter. Portrayals of often-identifiable sitters in domestic settings (which could offer commissions) were ascendant in the exhibitions.^[44] The subjects of the paintings were often women interacting with their environment by either their gaze or movement. Cassatt, in particular, was aware of her placement of subjects: she kept her predominantly female figures from objectification and platitude; when they are non reading, they converse, sew, drink tea, and when they are inactive, they seem lost in thought.^[45]

The women Impressionists, like their male counterparts, were striving for "truth," for new ways of seeing and new painting techniques; each artist had an individual painting fashion.^[46] Women Impressionists (particularly Morisot and Cassatt) were conscious of the remainder of ability between women and objects in their paintings – the conservative women depicted are non defined by decorative objects, but instead, collaborate with and boss the things with which they live.^[47] In that location are many similarities in their depictions of women who seem both at ease and subtly bars.^[48] Gonzalès' Box at the Italian Opera depicts a adult female staring into the distance, at ease in a social sphere but confined by the box and the man standing next to her. Cassatt'south painting Young Daughter at a Window is brighter in color but remains constrained by the canvas border as she looks out the window.

Despite their success in their ability to accept a career and Impressionism'south demise attributed to its allegedly feminine characteristics (its sensuality, dependence on sensation, physicality, and fluidity) the four women artists (and other, bottom-known women Impressionists) were largely omitted from art historical textbooks covering Impressionist artists until Tamar Garb'south Women Impressionists published in 1986.^[49] For case, Impressionism past Jean Leymarie, published in 1955 included no information on whatever women Impressionists.

Main Impressionists [edit]

The fundamental figures in the development of Impressionism in France,^{[50] [51]} listed alphabetically, were:

• Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870), who just posthumously participated in the Impressionist exhibitions
• Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894), who, younger than the others, joined forces with them in the mid-1870s
• Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), American-born, she lived in Paris and participated in four Impressionist exhibitions
• Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), although he later broke abroad from the Impressionists
• Edgar Degas (1834–1917), who despised the term Impressionist
• Armand Guillaumin (1841–1927)
• Édouard Manet (1832–1883), who did not participate in whatsoever of the Impressionist exhibitions^[52]
• Claude Monet (1840–1926), the most prolific of the Impressionists and the 1 who embodies their aesthetic most manifestly^[53]
• Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) who participated in all Impressionist exhibitions except in 1879
• Camille Pissarro (1830–1903)
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), who participated in Impressionist exhibitions in 1874, 1876, 1877 and 1882
• Alfred Sisley (1839–1899)

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Timeline: Lives of the Impressionists [edit]

The Impressionists

Associates and influenced artists [edit]

Among the close assembly of the Impressionists were several painters who adopted their methods to some degree. These include Jean-Louis Forain (who participated in Impressionist exhibitions in 1879, 1880, 1881 and 1886)^[54] and Giuseppe De Nittis, an Italian artist living in Paris who participated in the start Impressionist exhibit at the invitation of Degas, although the other Impressionists disparaged his piece of work.^[55] Federico Zandomeneghi was some other Italian friend of Degas who showed with the Impressionists. Eva Gonzalès was a follower of Manet who did not exhibit with the group. James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American-born painter who played a role in Impressionism although he did not join the group and preferred grayed colours. Walter Sickert, an English artist, was initially a follower of Whistler, and later an important disciple of Degas; he did not showroom with the Impressionists. In 1904 the creative person and author Wynford Dewhurst wrote the first important study of the French painters published in English, Impressionist Painting: its genesis and development, which did much to popularize Impressionism in Great United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.

By the early on 1880s, Impressionist methods were affecting, at to the lowest degree superficially, the art of the Salon. Fashionable painters such equally Jean Béraud and Henri Gervex found critical and financial success past brightening their palettes while retaining the polish finish expected of Salon fine art.^[56] Works by these artists are sometimes casually referred to as Impressionism, despite their remoteness from Impressionist practise.

The influence of the French Impressionists lasted long later on most of them had died. Artists like J.D. Kirszenbaum were borrowing Impressionist techniques throughout the twentieth century.

Across France [edit]

As the influence of Impressionism spread beyond French republic, artists, also numerous to list, became identified as practitioners of the new style. Some of the more important examples are:

• The American Impressionists, including Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Lilla Cabot Perry, Theodore Robinson, Edmund Charles Tarbell, John Henry Twachtman, Catherine Wiley and J. Alden Weir.
• The Australian Impressionists, including Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Walter Withers, Charles Conder and Frederick McCubbin (who were prominent members of the Heidelberg School), and John Russell, a friend of Van Gogh, Rodin, Monet and Matisse.
• The Amsterdam Impressionists in kingdom of the netherlands, including George Hendrik Breitner, Isaac Israëls, Willem Bastiaan Tholen, Willem de Zwart, Willem Witsen and Jan Toorop.
• Anna Boch, Vincent van Gogh'due south friend Eugène Boch, Georges Lemmen and Théo van Rysselberghe, Impressionist painters from Belgium.
• Ivan Grohar, Rihard Jakopič, Matija Jama, and Matej Sternen, Impressionists from Slovenia. Their beginning was in the schoolhouse of Anton Ažbe in Munich and they were influenced by Jurij Šubic and Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painters working in Paris.
• Wynford Dewhurst, Walter Richard Sickert, and Philip Wilson Steer were well known Impressionist painters from the United Kingdom. Pierre Adolphe Valette, who was born in France but who worked in Manchester, was the tutor of L. S. Lowry.
• The German Impressionists, including Lovis Corinth, Max Liebermann, Ernst Oppler, Max Slevogt and August von Brandis.
• László Mednyánszky and Pál Szinyei-Merse in Hungary
• Theodor von Ehrmanns and Hugo Charlemont who were rare Impressionists among the more dominant Vienna Secessionist painters in Austria.
• William John Leech, Roderic O'Conor, and Walter Osborne in Ireland
• Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov in Russian federation
• Francisco Oller y Cestero, a native of Puerto Rico and a friend of Pissarro and Cézanne
• James Nairn in New Zealand
• William McTaggart in Scotland
• Laura Muntz Lyall, a Canadian artist
• Władysław Podkowiński, a Polish Impressionist and symbolist
• Nicolae Grigorescu in Romania
• Nazmi Ziya Güran, who brought Impressionism to Turkey
• Chafik Charobim in Arab republic of egypt
• Eliseu Visconti in Brazil
• Joaquín Sorolla in Kingdom of spain
• Faustino Brughetti, Fernando Fader, Candido Lopez, Martín Malharro, Walter de Navazio, Ramón Silva in Argentina
• Skagen Painters a group of Scandinavian artists who painted in a small Danish line-fishing village
• Nadežda Petrović in Serbia
• Ásgrímur Jónsson in Republic of iceland
• Fujishima Takeji in Japan
• Frits Thaulow in Kingdom of norway and later France

Sculpture, photography and picture [edit]

The sculptor Auguste Rodin is sometimes called an Impressionist for the way he used roughly modeled surfaces to advise transient light effects.^[57]

Pictorialist photographers whose work is characterized by soft focus and atmospheric effects accept also been called Impressionists.

French Impressionist Picture palace is a term applied to a loosely divers grouping of films and filmmakers in France from 1919 to 1929, although these years are debatable. French Impressionist filmmakers include Abel Gance, Jean Epstein, Germaine Dulac, Marcel 50'Herbier, Louis Delluc, and Dmitry Kirsanoff.

Music and literature [edit]

Musical Impressionism is the name given to a motion in European classical music that arose in the late 19th century and connected into the center of the 20th century. Originating in France, musical Impressionism is characterized by suggestion and temper, and eschews the emotional excesses of the Romantic era. Impressionist composers favoured curt forms such as the nocturne, arabesque, and prelude, and ofttimes explored uncommon scales such as the whole tone scale. Possibly the most notable innovations of Impressionist composers were the introduction of major 7th chords and the extension of chord structures in 3rds to five- and six-function harmonies.

The influence of visual Impressionism on its musical counterpart is debatable. Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel are generally considered the greatest Impressionist composers, but Debussy disavowed the term, calling it the invention of critics. Erik Satie was also considered in this category, though his approach was regarded as less serious, more musical novelty in nature. Paul Dukas is some other French composer sometimes considered an Impressionist, simply his style is perhaps more closely aligned to the late Romanticists. Musical Impressionism beyond France includes the piece of work of such composers as Ottorino Respighi (Italy), Ralph Vaughan Williams, Cyril Scott, and John Ireland (England), Manuel De Falla and Isaac Albeniz (Spain), and Charles Griffes (America).

The term Impressionism has also been used to describe works of literature in which a few select details suffice to convey the sensory impressions of an incident or scene. Impressionist literature is closely related to Symbolism, with its major exemplars being Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, and Verlaine. Authors such as Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Joseph Conrad have written works that are Impressionistic in the way that they describe, rather than interpret, the impressions, sensations and emotions that found a character's mental life.

Post-Impressionism [edit]

During the 1880s several artists began to develop different precepts for the use of colour, design, grade, and line, derived from the Impressionist example: Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. These artists were slightly younger than the Impressionists, and their piece of work is known as post-Impressionism. Some of the original Impressionist artists likewise ventured into this new territory; Camille Pissarro briefly painted in a pointillist manner, and even Monet abandoned strict plein air painting. Paul Cézanne, who participated in the offset and 3rd Impressionist exhibitions, developed a highly individual vision emphasising pictorial construction, and he is more often called a post-Impressionist. Although these cases illustrate the difficulty of assigning labels, the work of the original Impressionist painters may, by definition, be categorised as Impressionism.

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See as well [edit]

• Fine art periods
• Cantonese school of painting
• Expressionism (as a reaction to Impressionism)
• Les Twenty
• Luminism (Impressionism)

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Exceptions include Canaletto, who painted exterior and may have used the camera obscura.
2. ^ Ingo F. Walther, Masterpieces of Western Art: A History of Fine art in 900 Individual Studies from the Gothic to the Present Day, Part 1, Centralibros Hispania Edicion y Distribucion, S.A., 1999, ISBN 3-8228-7031-five
3. ^ Nathalia Brodskaya, Impressionism, Parkstone International, 2014, pp. 13–xiv
4. ^ ^{a b c} Samu, Margaret. "Impressionism: Fine art and Modernity". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000 (October 2004)
5. ^ White, Harrison C., Cynthia A. White (1993). Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World. University of Chicago Press. p. 116. ISBN 0-226-89487-8.
6. ^ Bomford et al. 1990, pp. 21–27.
7. ^ Greenspan, Taube G. "Armand Guillaumin", Grove Art Online. Oxford Fine art Online, Oxford University Press.
8. ^ Seiberling, Grace, "Impressionism", Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press.
9. ^ Denvir (1990), p.133.
10. ^ Denvir (1990), p.194.
11. ^ Bomford et al. 1990, p. 209.
12. ^ Jensen 1994, p. ninety.
13. ^ Denvir (1990), p.32.
14. ^ Rewald (1973), p. 323.
15. ^ Gordon; Forge (1988), pp. 11–12.
16. ^ Distel et al. (1974), p. 127.
17. ^ Richardson (1976), p. 3.
18. ^ Denvir (1990), p.105.
19. ^ Rewald (1973), p. 603.
20. ^ Distel, Anne, Michel Hoog, and Charles South. Moffett. 1974. Impressionism; a Centenary Exhibition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 12, 1974 – Feb 10, 1975. [New York]: [Metropolitan Museum of Art]. p. 190. ISBN 0-87099-097-7.
21. ^ Rewald (1973), p. 475–476.
22. ^ Bomford et al. 1990, pp. 39–41.
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• Bomford, David, Jo Kirby, John Leighton, Ashok Roy, and Raymond White (1990). Impressionism. London: National Gallery. ISBN 0-300-05035-6
• Denvir, Bernard (1990). The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of Impressionism. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-20239-7
• Distel, Anne, Michel Hoog, and Charles Southward. Moffett (1974). Impressionism; a centenary exhibition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 12, 1974 – February ten, 1975. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 0-87099-097-7
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External links [edit]

• Hecht Museum
• The French Impressionists (1860–1900) at Project Gutenberg
• Museumsportal Schleswig-Holstein
• Impressionism : A Centenary Exhibition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 12, 1974 – February x, 1975, fully digitized text from The Metropolitan Museum of Fine art libraries
• Suburban Pastoral The Guardian, 24 February 2007
• Impressionism: Paintings collected by European Museums (1999) was an fine art exhibition co-organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Denver Art Museum, touring from May through December 1999. Online guided tour
• Monet's Years at Giverny: Across Impressionism, 1978 exhibition catalogue fully online equally PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which discusses Monet's role in this movement
• Degas: The Artist'due south Mind, 1976 exhibition catalogue fully online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which discusses Degas's office in this movement
• Definition of impressionism on the Tate Art Glossary

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