Impressionism- Sergio Arias

The ism I would love to be is impressionism, because sometimes when something impresses me I can represent it, act it, or share it in a fascinating way.

I like impressionism better than expressionism because an expressionist piece of art, from my point of view, is more about the feelings you have, representing your thoughts, your hobbies, and your style, and an impressionist piece of art is characterized of being a representation that expresses the visual impression of movement and that represents something highly remarkable and wonderful, that really went into you, and touched you in an incredible way, that completely changed your mind, and made you wanted to represent it’s greatness through a painting.

 Impressionism:

“Fine Arts

A style of painting developed in the last third of the 19th century, characterized chiefly by short brush strokes of bright colors in immediate juxtaposition to represent the effect of light on objects and the visual impression of movement.” (Dictionary.com)

The author that I liked the most of this art movement was Claude Monet, because he was one of the most important painters of this style and because I can relate his creations with me. For example his painting Impression Sunrise, reminds me when I went fishing with my dad in Mazatlan at 6:00am and we saw the beautiful sunrise and I got really impressed and astonished.

Impression, Sunrise. I like it also because was one of the first artworks created during this art movement, and that marked the turning point of modern art.

The characteristics of impressionism are:

·      Stroke Brushes

·      Colorful Colors

·      Asymmetrical Balance

·      Use of Colored Shadows

·      Use of Pure Color

·      Broken Color or Broken Brushstrokes

·      Use of Impasto (or Thick Paint)

·      Subject Matter

·      High Horizontal Line

·      Photographic Influence

·      Influence of Japanese Prints

·      Painted "En Plein Air"

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Impression, Sunrise.

Artist            Claude Monet

Year            1872

Type            Oil on canvas

Dimensions            48 cm × 63 cm (18.9 in × 24.8 in)

Location            Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

Wheat Stacks

Artist            Claude Monet

Year            1890-91

Type            Oil on canvas

Dimensions            60 cm × 100 cm (23.625 in × 39.375 in)

Location            Art Institute of Chicago

Street in Vétheuil in Winter

Artist Claude Monet

Year 1879

Type Oil on canvas

Dimensions 53 × 72 cm

Location  Museum of Konstmuseum

Portrait Of Monet:

Claude-Oscar Monet – Impressionist Painter.

Claude Monet, photo by Nadar, 1899

Was born in 14 November 1840

Paris, France

All these paintings made me identify this movement of impressionism since they have pretty much the characteristic of representing landscapes and the style of stroke brushes that were the most important in this paintings.

Overall, I like this style because it is diferent from the renaissance style painting that they depicted a lot details and used methods like sfumato, perspective, anatomy, etc. All these creations I find them more relaxed and calm, and that’s what I liked the most.

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Bibliography

*On line Learning The Fox Chase. Web. < http://www.flogris.org/learning/foxchase/html/about_impressionism.php>, 23/10/10.

*Web Museum, Paris. Web. < http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/impressionism/>, 23/10/10.

*Impressionism. Web. < http://www.uncg.edu/rom/courses/common/impressionism.htm>, 23/10/10.

*Images (Caption).