MODERN ART:

IMPRESSIONISM
Prepared by:
Mary Anne Ananey and
Matthew Dave Jucom

CHARACTERISTICS
IMPRESSIONIS
M
TREMENDOUS
IMPACT AND
INFLUENCE ON
THE PAINTING
STYLES THAT
FOLLOWED
SUCH AS NEOIMPRESSIONIS
M, POSTIMPRESSIONIS
M, FAUVISM,
CUBISM AND
EVEN ARTISTIC
STYLES AND
MOVEMENTS
OF TODAY.

COLOR AND LIGHT- EARLIER ART

PERIODS WERE VERY MUCH
CONCERNED WITH LINE, FORM
AND COMPOSITION.
IMPRESSIONIST PAINTED WITH
FREELY BRUSHED COLORS THAT
CONVEYED MORE OF A VISUAL
EFFECT.

ARTIST
EDOUARD MANET
(23 JANUARY 1832- 30
APRIL 1883) ONE OF THE
FIRST 19TH-CENTURY
ARTISTS TO PAINT
MODERN LIFE, AND A
PIVOTAL FIGURE IN THE
TRANSITION FROM
REALISM TO
IMPRESSIONISM.

EVERYDAY SUBJECTS- BREAK

AWAY FROM THE CREATION OF
FORMAL PORTRAITS AND
MYTHICAL, LITERARY,
HISTORICAL OR RELIGIOUS
TOPICS.

CLAUDE MONET
(14 November 1840 5
December 1926)
BEST KNOWN FOR HIS
LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS

AUGUSTE RENOIR
PAINTING OUTDOORS(25 February 1841 3
COINED FROM IMPRESSIONIST FOUND THAT
December 1919HIS EARLY
THEY COULD BEST CAPTURE THE
A PAINTING
WORKS WERE
EVER-CHANGING EFFECTS OF
CALLED
SNAPSHOTS OF REAL-LIFE,
LIGHT ON COLOR BY PAINTING
FULL OF SPARKLING
IMPRESSION,
COLOR AND LIGHT
SOLEIL LEVANT OUTDOORS IN NATURAL LIGHT.
WHICH MEANS
OPEN COMPOSITIONIMPRESSION,
IMPRESSIONIST MOVED AWAY
SUNRISE IN
FROM FORMAL, STRUCTURED
ENGLISH.
APPROACH TO PLACING AND

WORKS
ARGENTEUIL, 1874
RUE MOSNIER DECKED
WITH FLAGS, 1878
CAF CONCERT, 1878
THE BAR AT THE FOLIESBERGERE, 1882

LA PROMENADE, 1875
THE RED BOATS,
ARGENTEUIL, 1875
BRIDGE OVER A POND
OF WATER LILIES, 1899
IRISES IN MONETS
GARDEN, 1900
DANCER, 1874
A GIRL WITH WATERING
CAN, 1876
MILE IRENE CAHEN
DANVERS, 1880
LUNCHEON OF THE
BOATING PARTY

EDOUARD MANETS
WORKS
ARGENTEUIL (1874)

RUE MONSIER DECKED WITH

FLAGS (1876)

CAF CONCERT (1878)

THE BAR AT THE FOLIESBERGERE (1882)

CLAUDE MONETS WORKS

LA PROMENADE (1875)

THE RED BOATS, ARGENTEUIL

(1875)

IMPRESSION, SOLEIL LEVANT

(SUNRISE) 1872

BRIDGE OVER A POND OF

WATER LILIES (1899)

IRISES IN THE MONETS

GARDEN (1900)

AUGUSTE RENOIRS WORKS

DANCER (1874)

A GIRL WITH A WATERING CAN

(1876)

MISS IRENE CAHEN DANVERS

(1880)

LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING

PARTY (1881)

CHARACTERISTI
CS

POSTIMPRESSIONI
SM
EUROPEAN ARTIST
WHO WERE AT THE
FOREFRONT OF
THIS MOVEMENT
CONTINUED USING
THE BASIC
QUALITIES OF THE
IMPRESSIONIST
BEFORE THEM.
AFTER THE HIGHLY
INFLUENTIAL
PERIOD OF
IMPRESSIONISM,
AN OUTGROWTH
MOVEMENT KNOW
AS POSTIMPRESSIONISM
EMERGED.

ARTIST
PAUL CEZANNE
(19 January 1839 22
October 1906)
HIS WORKS
EXEMPLIFIED THE
TRANSITION FROM
LATE 19TH CENTURY
IMPRESSIONISM TO
EXPRESSIONISM

THEY USE VIVID

COLORS,
HEAVY
BRUSHSTROKES,
AND TRUE-TO-LIFE
SUBJECTS.
THEY
USED
A
GEOMETRIC
APPROACH,
VINCENT VAN
FRAGMENTING
OBJECTS
AND
GOGH (30 March
1853 29 July 1890)
DISTORTING
WORKS
WERE KNOWN
PEOPLES
FACES
AND BODY PARTS, FOR THEIR STRONG,
HEAVY BRUSH
AND
APPLYING
STROKES, INTENSE
COLORS
THAT
EMOTIONS, AND
WERE
NOT
COLORS THAT
PULSATE WITH
NECESSARILY
ENERGY
REALISTIC
OR
NATURAL.

WORKS
HORTENSE FIQUET
IN A STRIPED
SKIRT (1878)
STILL LIFE WITH
COMPOTIER (18791882)
HARLEQUIN (18881890
BOY IN A RED
VEST (1890)

SHEAVES OF
WHEAT IN A FIELD
(1885)
THE SOWER
(1888)
STILL LIFE: VASE
WITH FIFTEEN
SUNFLOWERS
(1888)
BEDROOM AT
ARIES (1888)
STARRY NIGHT
(1889)
WHEAT FIELD
WITH CYPRESSES
(1889)

PAUL CEZANNES WORKS

HORTENSE FIQUET IN A
STRIPED SKIRT (1878)

STILL LIFE WITH COMPOTIER

(1879-1882)

HARLEQUIN (18881890)

BOY IN A RED VEST

(1890)

VINCENT VAN GOGHS WORKS

SHEAVES OF WHEAT IN A FIELD
(1885)

THE SOWER (1888)

STILL LIFE: VASE WITH FIFTEEN

SUNFLOWERS (1888)

BEDROOM AT ARIES (1888)

STARRY NIGHT (1889)

WHEAT FIELD WITH

CYPRESSES (1889)