Impressionism

· Was a movement in European classical music, mainly in France

· Began in late 19th century continued into the middle of the 20th century

· Focused on suggestion and atmosphere rather than strong emotion or the depiction of a story

· Occurred as a reaction to the excesses of the romantic era

· Characterized by dramatic use of the major and minor scale

· Makes more use of dissonance and more uncommon scales such as the whole tone scale, chromatic and exotic rhythms

· Romantic composers also used long forms of music such as the symphony as concerto, while impressionist composers favoured short forums such as the nocturne, arabesque, and prelude.

· Was based in france

· French composers claude Debussy and Maurice ravel are generally considered to be the two "great" impressionists.

· Many musical instructions in impressionist pieces are written in French

· Begun by Debussy

· In place of the usual harmonic progression, he developed a style in which chords are valued for their individual sonorities rather than for their relations to one another.

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Impressionism (1870-1890) Mostly French artists Degas, Monet, morisot, pissarro, Renoir, Sisley.

Impressionist paintings are brightly colored with paint applied in disconnected strokes that were intended to be combined in the viewer's eye rather than by the painter's brush. Whether their subjects were indoors or outside, these painters were primarily concerned with transient effects (e..g Monet's painting series of Notre Dame Cathedral in Rouen at different times of the day) and the way that light or sunshine dematerializes their subject-matter.

Post-Impressionism (all painters from France: Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat) - 1880s thro early 1890s

These painters shared a dissatisfaction with the relative formlessness of Impressionist paintings - its blurring of forms which were the result of fragmented brushstrokes (which had replaced the traditional use of a drawn line).

In contrast, the Post-Impressionists were not concerned with the objective appearance of their subject matter. and how it looked at different time of the day. Laying the groundwork for a Modern Art largely based on concepts, theories and the personal emotions of the artist, they each explored (unlike the Impressionists) in different directions:

e.g. Seurat evolved a mosaic-like technique- pointillism- evolved from theories of color and optics of his time. Cezanne experimented in ways to construct landscape and still life compositions; Gauguin and Van Gogh focussed on private symbolism.

In practice, painting out of doors as favored by Impressionist painters was replaced by a slow and methodical painting process which generally could take place only inside the studio.

Most new art forms (in literature, in music, in pictorial art) are difficult to understand at first. Some people react by being angry.

mid-1880s to 1900s

post impressionism?

impressionism is the use of light and depics

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1870's (or 1872) to 1890's sorta...but there are also some later impressionist artists who did impressionism after the actual time period ex. Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne and J.M.Whistler

Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter. Expressionism sought to express the meaning of "being alive" and emotional experience rather than physical reality. It is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect; it is a subjective art form. In short: They are very different, not similar. Impressionism shows the light and color of a subject (landscape etc). Expressionism distorts form and color to express a feeling.

The name Impressionism comes from a comment that a critic made about Claude Monet's Impression: Sunrise saying that the piece only looked like an impression because of its sketchy quality and visible brushstrokes. The artist like the name so it stuck.

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One work that is often associated with this period is Maurice Maeterlinck's work Pelléas et Mélisande, which was later the basis of an opera by Claude Debussy.

Soutine created The Seated Choir Boy in 1930. It was in oil. Based on art reviews, many people call his work "post impressionism."

The movement mostly occured in France, though there were a few Americans (Cassatt being the only very famous one).

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Expressionism is a term used to denote the use of distortion and exaggeration for emotional effect, which first surfaced in the art literature of the early twentieth century. When applied in a stylistic sense, with reference in particular to the use of intense colour, agitated brushstrokes, and disjointed space. Rather than a single style, it was a climate that affected not only the fine arts but also dance, cinema, literature and the theatre.

Expressionism is an artistic style in which the artist attempts to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in him. He accomplishes his aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements. In a broader sense Expressionism is one of the main currents of art in the later 19th and the 20th centuries, and its qualities of highly subjective, personal, spontaneous self-expression are typical of a wide range of modern artists and art movements.

Unlike Impressionism, its goals were not to reproduce the impression suggested by the surrounding world, but to strongly impose the artist's own sensibility to the world's representation. The expressionist artist substitutes to the visual object reality his own image of this object, which he feels as an accurate representation of its real meaning. The search of harmony and forms is not as important as trying to achieve the highest expression intensity, both from the aesthetic point of view and according to idea and human critics.

Expressionism assessed itself mostly in Germany, in 1910. As an international movement, expressionism has also been thought of as inheriting from certain medieval artforms and, more directly, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and the fauvism movement.

The most well known German expressionists are Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Lionel Feininger, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein; the Austrian Oskar Kokoschka, the Czech Alfred Kubin and the Norvegian Edvard Munch are also related to this movement. During his stay in Germany, the Russian Kandinsky was also an expressionism addict.

Impressionism is not a religion.

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Post impressionism, art Nouveau, Symbolism, Vienna secission, les Nabis

Of course Impressionism, since Post-Impressionism means after Impressionism.

There are thousands of painters of Impressionism, including painters today. Historically, Monet, Manet, Degas, Pissaro, Homer, Macchiaioli, Pissaro, Sisely, Cezanne, Berthe Morisot, and Cassatt, are some of the most famous.

The image above is not one of Cézanne's Bathers. He painted Bathers from the 1870's onward. Near the end of his life he painted three large scale works of women bathers. The figures in all of these paintings have one thing in common, they are linked architecturally to each other and the background. He worked for seven years on the most famous of his Bather paintings, and considered it unfinished upon his death in 1905. You can view the actual painting at this link: http://totallyhistory.com/the-bathers/

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T. Fournier is a contemporary artist known for his modern impressionist style, which blends traditional impressionism with modern techniques and themes. His work often features vibrant colors and dynamic brushwork, capturing the essence of light and movement. Fournier's art seeks to evoke emotions and convey a sense of immediacy, making it resonate with today's audiences. He is part of a new wave of artists revitalizing the impressionist movement for the 21st century.

Primitivism and Impressionism are distinct art movements with different focuses. Primitivism seeks inspiration from non-Western cultures and emphasizes a return to simpler forms of expression, often idealizing the primitive or the "natural." In contrast, Impressionism, which emerged in the late 19th century, focuses on capturing the effects of light and color in everyday scenes, often through loose brushwork and an emphasis on the momentary experience. While both movements challenge traditional artistic conventions, primitivism looks outward for inspiration, whereas Impressionism concentrates on the immediate visual experience.