1. Impressionism

2. Impressionism
• Started in roughly 1874
• Paris
• Claude Monet with Impression: Sunrise
• It was meant to be a derogatory term
• In sketching, it referred to speed and
spontaneity
• Industrialization and urbanization equaled a
chaotic transformation

3. Claude Monet
Impression: Sunrise, 1872
• Obvious brush strokes
• A single moment
• The artist’s response
to nature

4. Pierre-Auguste Renoir Le Moulin de la
Galette, 1876
• Light and shadow
• Leisurely activities because of set schedules
● Unlike classical
art portraying
timeless qualities,
it shows a realistic
moment

5. Édouard Manet A Bar at the Folies-
Bergère, 1882
• Lots of questions:
– Is there a mirror behind her?
– Is that her
reflection?
– Is it a double
sided bar?
• It is about painting,
not what is going on

6. Edgar Degas Ballet Rehearsal, 1874
• It’s like you are actually standing in the room
• The floorboards follow the movement of the
dancers as
• well as form
• a pathway
• that draws
• the viewer in
• ● Light and
• shadow

7. Claude Monet Rouen Cathedral: The
Portal (in Sun), 1894
• Light and time of day
• The idea that shadows were
made of many colors, not just
gray
• The Rouen Cathedral series
originally had 40 different
views
• If you blur your eyes it looks
very real

8. Edgar Degas The Tub, 1886
• Mixing of dimensions; woman and tub are 3
dimensional while the table and pitchers are
somewhat 2 dimensional
• ● All about texture
• and movement of a
• moment

9. Impressionism Overall
• Initial sensory perception to an image and
moment
• The effects on color from light and shadow
• Short, choppy brushstrokes
• Lots of colors make up one image