IMPRESSIONISM AND POST IMPRESSIONISM

IMPRESSIONISM AND POST IMPRESSIONISM

​REVATHY R

IMPRESSIONIS​M

• Artistic movements arising in late 19th-century France.

• Impressionists painted contemporary landscapes and scenes of modern life, especially of bourgeois leisure and recreation, instead of drawing on past art or historical and mythological narrative for their inspiration.

• Attention to the fleeting effect of light, atmosphere and movement.

• They continued the break that the Realists began from the illusionist tradition by emphasizing the paint on the surface of the canvas, flattening the sense of perspective through a lack of tonal modeling, and using daring cropped perspectives which were influenced by Japanese prints.

• They painted en plein air (in the open air) and used a palette of pure colors.

• The term Impressionism is used to describe a group of painters living in Paris who worked between c. 1860 and 1900.

Artists

1. Frédéric Bazille

2. Edgar Degas

3. Claude Monet

4. Berthe Morisot

5. Camille Pissarro

6. Auguste Renoir

7. Alfred Sisley

8. Mary Cassatt, sparked an international group of followers and revolutionized Western conceptions of painting.

​POST IMPRESSIONISM

• ​Post-Impressionism is a term used to describe the reaction in the 1880s against Impressionism.

• It was led by Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Georges Seurat.

• The Post-Impressionists rejected Impressionism’s concern with the spontaneous and naturalistic rendering of light and color.

• Instead they favored an emphasis on more symbolic content, formal order and structure.

• Similar to the Impressionists, however, they stressed the artificiality of the picture.

• ​The Post-Impressionists also believed that color could be independent from form and composition as an emotional and aesthetic bearer of meaning.

• Both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism include some of the most famous works of modern art such as Monet’s Waterlilies, a Series of Waterscapes and van Gogh’s Starry Night. I

Multiple Choice

What is the name of the painting style that describes the work of Claude Monet?

• Surrealism

• Impressionism

• Realism

Multiple Choice

What inspired Monet to create his paintings?

• his family

• his dreams

• his gardens

Multiple Choice

What is the true subject of Impressionism? (Hint: Monet studied haystacks to understand this.)

• light & true color

• landscapes and water

• flowers and lily pads

Multiple Choice

Which of these sayings best explains how to paint in Impressionism?

• carefully and slowly taking your time

• loosely and quickly to just get the idea across

• paying close attention to small details making it look realistic

Multiple Choice

True or False: Impressionism is done very slowly and carefully, paying attention to detail.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What artist painted 'Starry Night' and is considered one of the greatest artists in history?

• Pablo Picasso

• Claude Monet

• Vincent Van Gogh

Multiple Choice

While Impressionism focuses on light, Post-Impressionism focuses on ____________.

• using the exact colors of objects

• making viewers feel an emotion

• making objects look realistic

Multiple Choice

True or False: Post-Impressionism uses un-natural, exaggerated, or distorted colors.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

List one similarity and one difference between Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.

• Both styles use lose and quick brush strokes, but the colors used are different.

• Both styles show outdoor scenes, but the brush strokes used are different.

• Both styles use the same colors, but the brush strokes are different.