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French
Impressionism. Painters and other artists have created Impressionistic
works of art in several periods of history. But the term Impressionism
is applied chiefly to the work of a group of French artists who
revolutionized painting with shimmering, colorful pictures. These
artists, who included Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille
Pissarro, and Edgar Degas, created their most important work from
about 1870 to about 1910. They held their first exhibition together
in Paris in 1874. The name Impressionism comes from Monet's painting
Impression: Sunrise (1870), which was shown at that exhibition.
The artists took the name after a critic used it mockingly to describe
all the exhibited works. |
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$4,000,000 |
Impressionism
is a style of art that presents an immediate impression of an object
or event. Impressionist painters try to show what the eye sees at
a glance, rather than what they know or feel about the object or
incident. They try to reproduce light as it appears to the eye when
reflected from the surface of things. For this reason, many Impressionist
paintings have an effect of vibrating brilliance. Some painters
achieve this effect by applying paint in small individual strokes
of pure color, instead of mixing it on the palette. There are Impressionist
works of music, literature, and sculpture, but Impressionism is
most important in the art of painting. |
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