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Impressionism (1890s) ((Used short "broken" brush strokes of…
Impressionism (1890s)
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Short, thick stokes of paint are used to quickly capture the essence of the subject, rather than its detail. Paint often applied impasto.
They found that they could capture the momentary and transient effect of sunlight by painting EN PLEIN AIR
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Painted realistic scenes of modern life, and often outdoors
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The impressionists had a revolt against the primary principles of Romanticism, where emotional excitement of the artist came first and nature second.
They were interested in the objective recording of contemporary and actual experience. The idea of recording immediate uninterrupted experiences led these painters in many of their pictures to avoid the appearance of formal compositions and to seek to convey the effect of accidental and chance disposition as if a camera had photographed a scene.
Claude Monet
Rouen Cathedral
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Each work captures the Cathedral at a different time of the day and year, thus reflecting the changes in its appearance under different conditions of light and colour
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Impressionists adopted a range of pure hues in order to convey the luminosity of nature. They used no BLACKS; STROKES f unused pigments; canvas primed in white instead of the traditional brown. This method of painting later continued to the pointillist style.
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