The Impressionism: The Purpose Of Impressionism

Every person has heard of the term impressionism, but not everyone knows about impressionism and its important aspects. It gained its name in 1874, but the techniques used was used as early as the 1860s. What is impressionism, though? Impressionism is the idea that focuses around how light in nature falls onto surfaces. Many people say that impressionism is about the present. The use of various light sources help to show this. This art movement started in France, and included famous painters such as: Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, and Paul Cezanne. So what was the purpose of impressionism? What did it do? Impressionism changed the Western idea of landscape painting. It was changed from idealistic ideas of distant …show more content…
Many independent artists actually chose not to apply the thick golden varnish that painters customarily used to tone down their works. They even decided to have more vividly colored paints as well. This of course was a shock to the eyes that were so use to the bland colors of previous painters. This is evident within Edouard Manet 's 1874 painting Boating. It shows features such as an expanse of Cerulean blue and synthetic ultramarine. A fashionable boater and his companion are depicted in a Japanese-inspired composition that embody modern ideas of the …show more content…
The eldest artist, Pissarro, was the only one who had an exhibit at all eight shows while another artist, Morisot, only participated within seven. There was talk of earlier independent exhibition, but the war interrupted the thought. This was due to the fact Frederic Bazille, who was the one leading the efforts on this, was killed within the war. Therefore, exhibitions were then lead by different artists at the time. Because of the different exhibition leaders, many debates arouse, which lead to the change in the contributions to the exhibitions. The last of the exhibitions, 1886, was the one that showed the ideas of impressionism fading away into a more avant-garde style. Due to the fact that many members were developing new, individualized styles of artwork, few were working in recognizable impressionist manners. Pissarro decided to promote new participates as well as adopt the new technique based on points of pure color. This became known as Neo-Impressionism. Due to the fact that impressionism had many various aspects and participants as well as a short lived life, one has difficulty trying to define it. Even so, Impressionism was a movement that embraced modern life and also treaded on enduring