Impressionism

movements of realism, impressionism, post-impression and expressionism. Kollwitz’s famous etching of Woman with Dead Child prominently represent the styles of realism and expressionism. Käthe Kollwitz received formal artist education during the height of realism. The art movement of realism, which was most popular between 1848 to the 1900’s, began around the 1840’s due to the social changes brought on by the industrial revolution. Art of the realism movement focused on real…

Romanticism. Impressionism was a movement made of visible strokes that symbolized certain things. This was a movement that consisted of many amazing artists like Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Éduoard Manet, and Paul Cèzanne. The difference between Impressionism and Romanticism was the brush strokes and the lack of emotion on the characters faces. Impressionism was more impersonal and full of landscapes. Post Impressionism was an art movement that decided to move towards more sentimental…

The artistic movement known as impressionism sought to capture events and scenes in order to convey their essence not through exact reproduction but rather through color and light. The goal was not only to reproduce the scene itself but to also reproduce the sensation and life of the scene. The impressionist style with its free and unplanned brushstrokes, bright and vivid colors, and innocent subjects soon became synonymous with modern life and art. Various individuals within the movement would…

Regnier, use the medium of paint to create their beautiful art. While they both use the same medium in their art, they have do have different styles. Wilding uses an expressionism style in her art to connect with her viewer, whereas Regnier uses impressionism in her painting. When viewing Wilding's tree painting, and many others it becomes evident that she would be considered and expressional artist. Expressionism is an art movement that originated in 20th century Germany. Expressionist…

artifacts entailing the history of America, from its multitude of early Native American art to current day. I loved seeing the different forms of artwork housed at the museum. My favorite exhibit was over impressionism in California during the 20th century. The movement, while rooted in impressionism, changed shape with new American influences. For example, painters used new methods to show God and Nature as one, painting with a kind of religious fervor. The movement took on the French title…

many styles that are encompassed by this movement include romanticism, realism, impressionism, cubism, futurism, and surrealism. Romanticism “was not so much a style as a set of attitudes and characteristics” (Getlein 473), favoring emotion, induvial experiences, intuition, and imagination. Realism was romanticism’s polar opposite, instead favoring the day to day lives and experiences of ordinary people. Impressionism took to nature for inspiration, and fauvism which is a small part of…

Other French artists, like Monet and Renoir, had set the “impressionistic tone” that had influenced art in the 1800s. Degas, on the other hand, strayed a bit from impressionism although he had many good impressionistic works. He had been somewhat influenced by the realism movement as well, and captured moments as true to form as possible. Such examples include his many artworks of dancers or just French people doing everyday…

Some art goes slightly glanced at, seen at the surface level as just art rather than what it is and why it’s like that. Most art even finds itself largely taken for granted, being a large part of our lives. We live in a world made up of and by art, for instance, all around us we see paintings, architecture, sculpture, fashion, and even technology. However what is art really? How did it become such a big part of our lives? And what would our lives be without it? This research is to find out…

Madame Manet is one of several portraits Édouard Manet painted of his wife. Madame Manet is a 23-7/8 x 20 in. oil painting, that was created between the years 1874-1876 in Paris for George Moore; however, it can now be found in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. Also residing at the Norton Simon is Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of the Artist’s Mother. Van Gogh painted this 16 x 12-3/4 in. image for himself while in Arles, France using oil paints as his medium. Both of these pieces…

Starting in the 1860s, the French Impressionism period was sparked by famous artists. Alfred Sisley, an original creator of French Impressionism, debuted with creating landscapes around the Argenteuil area. During the last two productive years of Alfred Sisley’s career, he began to paint paintings of the different environments of moret-sur-loing. Alfred Sisley’s A Turn of the River Loing uses natural colors, the circle of confusion technique, and detailed brushstrokes to create a realistic…