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Impressionism - Coggle Diagram
Impressionism
What is it?
movement in art
Started in late 1800s
France
Painted
Everday life
Picnic
People working
What they saw
Outdoors
Changing light
Qualities
Academic Art
history/ mythology
smooth/ flat
no brush strokes
dark background
Impressionist
bright/ light
start with white canvas
bold colors
complementary
colors
red & green
Poppies, Near Argenteuil
Colors stand out
Simple composition
landscape
small figures in foreground
Visible brushstroke
Capture fleeting moment in time
(impermanence)
Arabesque
Edgar Degas
Dancer in the middle of the movement
edge of skirt cut off
feels like things are changing
Influenced
Many artists
Theory
Impermenance
Style
Bright/ light
visible brushstroke
simple composition
Intentions
Capture the moment
Criticism
Unpolished
Unprofessional
Unfinished
Impressionist =
insult
how they worked
loose, imprecise
way of working
didn't try to be
an impressionist
tried some different
Degas
Monet
Camille Pissarro
Pierre-Auguste Renior
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