Impressionism: An Art Movement In The 19th-Century
Impressionism
In the 19th-century we saw an art movement that would come to be known as Impressionism. The Impressionism term was coined in 1874 after a hostile critic, Louis Leroy, had seen a picture entitled _Impression: Sunrise_ by Claude Monet (Janson 721) and gave the art work a sarcastic review. Impressionism came into prominence between the 1870 and the 1880 (Janson 721). As with each new art movement, they are a response to the previous period and Impressionism is no different. It was a reaction to the realism and the classical matter defined by academies, Impressionism set out to break these boundaries. Before this time period, one of the greatest boundaries was the "perfect image," an image that was carefully finished and looked as realistic as it could be. Many of these paintings were of historical subjects and other religious or mythological themes. The Impressionism movement brought out the …show more content…
emotion of the painter, and allowed the painters to set their own rules.
There began a shift of painting landscapes and paintings that made the world stand still as they saw it in their own eyes.
Artist brought in more dazzling colors and allowed these colors to mix. As painting before this period, each layer would be added and then allowed to dry; during Impressionism, these colors mixed and became piled up upon one another. Painters of this movement felt as if they were casual strollers, who take in a slice of life as it passes by (Janson 722). During this time, paintings were not only focused on the person but on what he or she was doing at the time.
Take Edouard Manet 's painting _A Bar at the Folies-Bergere (1881-82);_ it depicts a scene in the Folies Bergere nightclub in Paris. The painting is painted just as if you were standing at the bar awaiting a drink, and man standing next to you on your right, as you reflect in the mirror you see the rest of the social class behind your in conversation.
You can see the overlapping colors and brush strokes Manet took to complete is picture of the nightlife in Paris during his
lifetime.
Post Impressionism
Impressionism ended with the death of Manet, another art critic by the dame of Roger Fry in 1910 coined this new movement of the part "Post-Impressionism" (Janson 746). This movement covered French art between 1886 and 1914 (Janson 746-779). The artist of this time had become displeased with the paintings before and the loss of basic concepts and subject matter in the Impressionist paintings. Included in the new movement is "Symbolism," recognition that the artwork can provoke a deeper meaning to each that view the painting (Janson 747). Painters during this time felt as if they had lost the structure of past generations, and wanted to put emphasis on geometric forms and bring in unnatural colors to their paintings.
As with Georges Seurat, _Chahut (1889-90)_ has a deeper richer color and straighter more defined lines and shapes. Color seemed to be adjunct to form in Seurat 's work, very opposite of the Impressionists ' techniques (Janson 751). Every brushstroke demonstrates Seurat 's passion for order and permanence. The canvas surface has been covered with systematic flicks that merge in the beholder 's eye and produce intermediary tints more luminous than those obtained by mixing pigments with a brush as in the Impressionism period.
Works Cited
Janson, H. W., and Anthony F. Janson. _History of Art._ New York, NY: Prentice Hall, 1997. Print.
_Manet 's Bar at the Folies-Bergere._ The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007. _The J. Paul Getty Museum_. Web. 25 Nov. 2012. <http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/manet_bar/>. Image.
_Seurat, Georges: Le Chahut._ Paris: Nicolas Pioch, 2002. _Painters_. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/seurat/chahut/>. Image.
In the 19th-century we saw an art movement that would come to be known as Impressionism. The Impressionism term was coined in 1874 after a hostile critic, Louis Leroy, had seen a picture entitled _Impression: Sunrise_ by Claude Monet (Janson 721) and gave the art work a sarcastic review. Impressionism came into prominence between the 1870 and the 1880 (Janson 721). As with each new art movement, they are a response to the previous period and Impressionism is no different. It was a reaction to the realism and the classical matter defined by academies, Impressionism set out to break these boundaries. Before this time period, one of the greatest boundaries was the "perfect image," an image that was carefully finished and looked as realistic as it could be. Many of these paintings were of historical subjects and other religious or mythological themes. The Impressionism movement brought out the …show more content…
emotion of the painter, and allowed the painters to set their own rules.
There began a shift of painting landscapes and paintings that made the world stand still as they saw it in their own eyes.
Artist brought in more dazzling colors and allowed these colors to mix. As painting before this period, each layer would be added and then allowed to dry; during Impressionism, these colors mixed and became piled up upon one another. Painters of this movement felt as if they were casual strollers, who take in a slice of life as it passes by (Janson 722). During this time, paintings were not only focused on the person but on what he or she was doing at the time.
Take Edouard Manet 's painting _A Bar at the Folies-Bergere (1881-82);_ it depicts a scene in the Folies Bergere nightclub in Paris. The painting is painted just as if you were standing at the bar awaiting a drink, and man standing next to you on your right, as you reflect in the mirror you see the rest of the social class behind your in conversation.
You can see the overlapping colors and brush strokes Manet took to complete is picture of the nightlife in Paris during his
lifetime.
Post Impressionism
Impressionism ended with the death of Manet, another art critic by the dame of Roger Fry in 1910 coined this new movement of the part "Post-Impressionism" (Janson 746). This movement covered French art between 1886 and 1914 (Janson 746-779). The artist of this time had become displeased with the paintings before and the loss of basic concepts and subject matter in the Impressionist paintings. Included in the new movement is "Symbolism," recognition that the artwork can provoke a deeper meaning to each that view the painting (Janson 747). Painters during this time felt as if they had lost the structure of past generations, and wanted to put emphasis on geometric forms and bring in unnatural colors to their paintings.
As with Georges Seurat, _Chahut (1889-90)_ has a deeper richer color and straighter more defined lines and shapes. Color seemed to be adjunct to form in Seurat 's work, very opposite of the Impressionists ' techniques (Janson 751). Every brushstroke demonstrates Seurat 's passion for order and permanence. The canvas surface has been covered with systematic flicks that merge in the beholder 's eye and produce intermediary tints more luminous than those obtained by mixing pigments with a brush as in the Impressionism period.
Works Cited
Janson, H. W., and Anthony F. Janson. _History of Art._ New York, NY: Prentice Hall, 1997. Print.
_Manet 's Bar at the Folies-Bergere._ The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007. _The J. Paul Getty Museum_. Web. 25 Nov. 2012. <http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/manet_bar/>. Image.
_Seurat, Georges: Le Chahut._ Paris: Nicolas Pioch, 2002. _Painters_. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/seurat/chahut/>. Image.