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Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). Critic Louis Leroy inadvertently coined the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari.
Characteristics of Impressionist painting include visible brushstrokes, light colors, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, and unusual visual angles.
The influence of Impressionist thought spread beyond the art world, leading to Impressionist music and Impressionist literature.
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Impressionist Art: Impressionism Movement
Volume 21, number 2: Emerging Themes, Emerging Voices
Mills Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Considering the Copy
Moss Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Beyond English
LaFountain Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Collapsing Boundaries
Bailly Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Objects, Contexts, and the Space Between
Jordan Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Copley's Cargo
Roberts Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
In 1765, John Singleton Copley sent his painting Henry Pelham (Boy with a Squirrel) from Boston to London in hopes of receiving feedback from the arbiters of academic aesthetics. Several months later, he received the welcome news that Sir Joshua Reynolds had called the painting "wonderfull." In virtually every scholarly narrative of early American art, Boy with a Squirrel derives its canonical significance from this famous transatlantic relay. But the most basic reality of that relay–the massive fact of the Atlantic Ocean standing between Copley and his interlocutors–has barely been registered in the scholarship.This essay interprets Boy with a Squirrel in terms of the difficulty and delicacy of its transatlantic transmission. I argue that Copley, as he attempted to create a painting that would have the necessary transitive qualities, drew from an array of familiar discourses of Atlantic exchange and transport. The painting's profile format evoked strategies of numismatic exchange. The precise representation of the flying squirrel tapped into well-established transatlantic natural history circuits. The spatial transformations of the composition echoed not only empiricist theories of sensory conveyance (especially the writings of George Berkeley), but also mirrored the workaday dynamics of the shipping and reassembly of transatlantic commodities. Copley, like many other colonial artists, worked in a global community governed by distance, difference, and delay. By attending to the vehicular context of Boy with a Squirrel, we can begin to understand his strategies for articulating–and navigating–that new global space.
Artcyclopedia: Impressionism - A list of major and minor Impressionist artists with links to online collections and museums.
Meta Description: [ Impressionism: List of artists and index to where their art can be viewed at art museums worldwide. ]
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Impressionism (1880 -- 1920) and the New Media - by Gary Daum. This online edition is presented as a service to the community of Georgetown Preparatory School. Relates Impressionism in art and music.
Impressionism: Paintings Collected by European Museums - Online art exhibition including the works of reeminent Impressionists. Learn about the Impressionist movement and experience their art.
Impressionist and Postimpressionist Masterpieces: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist Masterpieces features fifty-three works by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Picasso on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Impressionist Still Life - Catalogue and exhibition of paintings by Manet, Monet, Degas, van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne at the Phillips Collection, later at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Meta Description: [ Impressionist Still Life. Manet, Monet, Caillebotte, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh. Exhibition and catalogue. ]
Jelle Taeke de Boer (1908 - 1970) - Information on the Dutch art collector who amassed many undiscovered art works attributed to impressionist masters. Provides images, exhibitions and ongoing authentication efforts.
Meta Description: [ Picture from the Album of Jelle de Boer impressionist collection ]
Olga's Gallery: Unknown Impressionist Masterpieces - Impressionist masterpieces which were presumed lost during WWII were revealed to the public.
Meta Description: [ One of the largest online painting museums. New exhibits daily. Biographies and main works of many famous artists. Excellent quality of reproductions. Historical comments., Masterpieces of famous Impressionist artists which were hidden in the Hermitage since WWII are revealed to the public now. ]
The Impressionist Movement and Its Greatest Painters - Provides a history of the movement and biographies of its masters. In English and French.
Meta Description: [ L'impressionnisme et les grands peintres impressionnistes qui ont fait son histoire : Manet, Pissarro, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Bazille, Sisley, Caillebotte, Cézanne, Guillaumin, Gauguin, Van Gogh. ]
The Impressionists - Biographies and images of the works of Degas, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Bazille, Cassatt, Manet, and Sisley are included in this site which combines information from AE television and the Gale Biography Resource Center.
Meta Description: [ Learn more about the Impressionists, their influence on art, and their use of colors and techniques. ]
WebMuseum: Impressionism (1860-1900) - More from Web Museum: The artists and their work
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