Created by Mgr. Jaroslava Študentová
Revision of key information
a friend of Monet
spent a lot of time together in a pub „La Granouilliere“ and tried to capture all the changes of objects in different light
He is considered to be a founder of Impressionism.
He loved painting in plein air.
He painted one object in different seasons and day times.
He also had a garden in Giverny which was a „living picture“. He had there many plants which blossomed during the whole year. He very often painted this garden.
He was influenced by Édouard Manet.
dancers
an excellent draftsman
very good at depicting movement.
We do not speak about Impressionism, we speak about Symbolism
People:
Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, and Verlaine.
Examples from the Czech literature: Fráňa Šrámek, Vilém Mrštík (the novel Santa Lucia).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tQs6l4d8hM
Mainly the countryside.
Changing of light in the different daytimes.
People.
Very poetic, light
Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel
It was first used in the Charivari (a magazine) on the 25 April 1874 by Louis Leroy, after Claude Monet's landscape entitled Impressions: soleil levant [Impressions]. (The sunrise – in the picture there is the sea, the rising Sun and in the backgroung we can see some ships. The sun reflects is the sea.)
objectively depicted visual reality,
using effects of light and colour
Short, thick strokes of paint
Wet paint is placed into wet paint without waiting
The play of natural light
They often painting in the morning or evening. We call it effets de soir - the shadowy effects of the light in the evening or twilight.
They often painted in plein air.
They didn't use the black colour much.
They tried not to mix the colours much.
It appeared in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
