Art Appercation

Art Appreciation

Unit 5 Individual Project Final Paper

Antionette Caruso

American InterContinental University

Amy Gorman

July 11, 2010

Impressionist Works of Art

Impressionist art is a style in which the artist captures the images of an object as you or I would see it as if you were to just caught a glimpse of it. These artist paint pictures with a lot of color and most of their pictures are outdoor scenes, also the artist pictures are very bright and very vibrant. Impressionist artist like to capture their images without details and with bold colors. Impressionist artist who do these types of paintings are Edouard Manet, Camille Pessaro, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot and Pierre Auguste Renoir.

The artist and paintings I chose to discuss are Edouard Manet, he influenced the development of impressionist, he painted everyday object and his painting I chose is “The Railway” (1872-73) which measures 93.3 x 111.5 cm and is an oil painting on canvas and can be seen in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Berthe Morisot painted women doing everyday things and the painting I chose of hers is “The Reading” (fig. 676) (1873), painted with oil and on canvas measures 17 3/4 x 28 ½ can be seen in The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Claude Monet who was only interested in subtle changes in the atmosphere and chose (fig. 676) (1872) “ Impression Sunrise” done in oil paint and on canvas measure 19.5 x 25.5 inches and be seen in the Misee Marmottan in Paris.

Edouard Manet is French born in Paris to an aristocratic family and was only allowed to study art after he failed his exam at the Naval Academy. He emerged from Courbet Realism a considered the founder of the Impressionist movement. He devoted his work to pure-painting and believes the brush strokes and color patches themselves and not what they stand for. He broke with the classical Renaissance tradition of a picture being a wind oscine and painted without shadow or...