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Impressionism
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Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterised by visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities, ordinary subject matter, unus
Impression, Sunrise, an 1872 Claude Monet oil on canvas painting now housed at Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris. This painting became the source of the
Impression, Sunrise, an 1872 Claude Monet oil on canvas painting now housed at Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris. This painting became the source of the movement's name after Louis Leroy's 1874 article, "The Exhibition of the Impressionists", satirically implied that the painting was, at most, a sketch.
J. M. W. Turner's atmospheric work was influential on the birth of Impressionism, here The Fighting Temeraire (1839).
J. M. W. Turner's atmospheric work was influential on the birth of Impressionism, here The Fighting Temeraire (1839).
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (1876), Musée d'Orsay, one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (1876), Musée d'Orsay, one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces.
Catalogue cover from the First Impressionist Exhibition (1874)
Catalogue cover from the First Impressionist Exhibition (1874)
Claude Monet
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Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career,
Impressionism
…and 1880s. The Impressionists faced harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. The name of the style derives from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise, which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satirical 1874 review of the First Impressionist Exhibition…
Monet c. 1899
Monet c. 1899
The Woman in the Green Dress, Camille Doncieux, 1866, Kunsthalle Bremen
The Woman in the Green Dress, Camille Doncieux, 1866, Kunsthalle Bremen
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (right-hand section), 1865–1866, Paris, with Gustave Courbet, Frédéric Bazille and Camille Doncieux, first wife of the artist,
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (right-hand section), 1865–1866, Paris, with Gustave Courbet, Frédéric Bazille and Camille Doncieux, first wife of the artist, Musée d'Orsay
Three Cows Grazing, 1868, pastel on paper
Three Cows Grazing, 1868, pastel on paper