Impressionist Painting

Impressionism and the subsequent development of PostImpressionism together constitute one of the major artistic innovations since the Renaissance. Mark Powell-Jones shows how novel ideas of the period about painting techniques, brushstrokes, canvas, light, subject matter, expression, realism,

of the artist,

photography, the aim of painting and the role laid the foundations of modern art.

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the artists in this book are Boudin, Monet, Pissarro, Manet, Degas, Sisley, Cezanne, Morisot, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard, and Bonnard.

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Delacroix and Courbet both belonged to movement in European painting that was to be important in the development of Impressionism. Delacroix was a hero to younger generation of painters. His use of bright colours and the freedom of his brushstrokes led him to be considered an outcast by the followers of Ingres, but exercised an influence on the work of painters as diverse as Renoir a

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Impressionist painting. 1.

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period to develop form of 'classicism' through which he sought to rejoin what he saw as the mainstream of European art. Yet he remained a supremely natural painter delighting in the have no rules and no interaction of bright colours. methods,' he said, 'and want to be sonorous, to sound like a bell, if it doesn't turn out that way, put more reds or other colours until get it.' He never lost his joy in painted. a

In

the early 1880s Impressionism, or rather

some Impres-

seemed

as though their sense of purpose had deserted them. Pissarro as one of the leading theorists of the group was interested in the optical theories of Chevreul and the work of Seurat. He sionist painters, suffered a crisis;

began

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