Impressionism was essentially the study of how light hits an object.
- I have gone back to some things that can't possibly be done: water, with weeds waving at the bottom. It is a wonderful sight, but it drives one to crazy to try to paint it. But that is the kind of thing I am always tackling.
* artist quotations from Monet's letter to art critic and friend Gustave Geffroy, 22 June 1890; as quoted in "Letters of the great artists - from Blake to Pollock -", Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 129
See: Haystacks by Claude Monet.
Haystacks were a series of impressionist paintings of the same subject in a variety of different seasons, days, and hours. The time of day, the actual day, and the seasons all affected the lighting. Monet therefore did a series analyzing the light hitting the specific object.
They painted mainly in the open air rather than the studio and aimed to capture fleeting effects of light and weather.
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No, he is definitely not an impressionist.
Impressionist painters' interest in color is paralleled by the Impressionist composers' interest in timbre.
yes
It is if it was painted by one of the impressionist painters.
Gauguin used bold colors to convey emotion.
Post impressionist
'Impressionist' as in 'Monet was an Impressionist painter' is an adjective.
No, he is definitely not an impressionist.
Impressionist painters' interest in color is paralleled by the Impressionist composers' interest in timbre.
What do you mean? Renoir was French and he was an Impressionist.
yes
In the first impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1874.
Claude Monet is considered an Impressionist.
It is if it was painted by one of the impressionist painters.
Georges Seurat was a pointillist or neo-impressionist.
Because he was part of the impressionist group and painted like the other impressionist painters. Click link below and see the paintings!
Around 1880s with Vincent Van Gogh who was a post- Impressionist artist.