3. INTRODUCTION
Impressionism:
Impressionism is a 19th-
centuryArt movement
characterized by
relatively small, thin,
yet 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, inclusion of movement as a crucial
element of human perception and experience, and unusual
visual angles.
4. •Visible brush strokes
•Open composition
•Emphasis on light in its changing qualities
•Ordinary subject matter
•Unusual visual angles
CHARACTERISTICS OF IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS
5. MAJOR IMPRESSIONIST ARTIST
•Claude Monet,
Impression, soleil levant
(Impression, Sunrise)
1872.
Oil on canvas, Musée
Marmottan Monet, Paris.
•Claude Monet,
Haystacks, (sunset), 1890–
1891.
Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston
7. Alfred Sisley, Bridge at
Villeneuve-la-Garenne,
1872, Metropolitan
Museum of Art
•Alfred Sisley, View of
the Saint-Martin Canal,
Paris, 1870, Musee
d'Orsay
8. •Auguste Renoir,
Dance at Le Moulin de
la Galette (Bal du
moulin de la Galette),
Musee d'Orsay, 1876
•Auguste Renoir, On the
Terrace, 1881, Art
Institute of Chicago.
12. Post-Impressionism:
Post-Impressionism
(also spelled Post-
impressionism) is a
predominantly
French art movement
that developed
roughly between
1886 and 1905, from
the last Impressionist
exhibition to the birth
of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction
against Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of
light and color.
13. See brushstrokes
Personality expressive
Style over fidelity
No fleeting light or moment
Art is for the artist’s sake
CHARACTERISTICS OF POST-IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS