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Impressionism - Coggle Diagram
Impressionism
Qualities
light & bright colors
white canvas
conventional = dark
Bold color combinations
shocking
complementary colors
eg. red & green
stand out more
simple compositions
landscapes
small figures in the foreground
brushstrokes
x blended a lot
visible brushstrokes
impermanence
to capture a fleeting moment
"Arabesque" by Edgar Degas
Intentions
"impressionist"
Insult
unpolished, unfinished, unprofessional
loose & imprecise
wanted to be different
from conventional art
Degas
Monet
Pissarro
Renoir
influenced later artists
theories
techniques
What?
art movement
started in France
late 1800s
everyday life
x history
x mythology
x idealized beauty
painted what they saw
outdoor
to capture nature
Monet
to look at changing lights