arts 10

Art movement that emerged in the second half of the 19th century among a group of Paris-based artists

Impression, soleil levant in english

• Freely brushed colors that conveyed more of a visual effect than a detailed rendering of the subject. 

• Primarily Concerns: Line, form, and composition 

• Captured scenes of life around them

• Outdoors in natural lights to capture ever-changing light of color rather than it in studios.  

• Experimented with unusual visual angles, sizes of objects that appeared out of proportion, off-center placement, and empty spaces on canvas.

• capture fleeting moments of an action (landscapes, day-to-day lives of people) 

• Key figure in the transition from realism to impressionism

• Most prominent and influential figure of impressionism