Impressionism

• Tell me what you see?

• What is your first impression?

Pay close attention to Red Words

1. Impressionism2. Capturing the moment!3. Dabbing4. Atmospheric Flickering Light 5. Claude Monet6. Edgar Degas7. Landscape 8. Vibrant Colored Surface 9. En plein air10. Horizon line 11. Foreground12. Background

What is Impressionism?When and Why did it start?

• Impressionism is an art movement that originated in France in the 1860s and was popular until the 1880s.

• Artists were rebelling against traditional academic art.

What were artists trying to achieve?

• Artists were responding to the invention of the camera.

• They wanted to capture the moment in a way that a camera could not.

• How does the artist achieve that in this image?

19th century camera

Characteristics• Artists of this time were

very interested in the strong lighting and heavy color!

• They Applied paint in a dabbing method using rapid small brush strokes.

• The brush strokes often created a atmospheric flickering light effect like in these paintings.

Color Techniques• Colors are applied side-

by-side with little blending: creating a vibrant colored surface.

• Our eyes naturally blends the colors as the viewer.

• Grays and dark tones are produced by mixing complementary colors such as mixing blue/orange/purple.

• Impressionists avoid the use of black paint.

Landscapes

• Impressionists sometimes painted landscapes which are visible features of the land. ( such as mountains, sky, grass, buildings, etc.)

• The act of painting outside was referred to as painting En plein air . Which is French for “in the open air”

Artists paid attention to!

Artists paid attention to what was going on in the foreground (front of image) and background ( back of image).

Landscapes often depicted a horizon line which was a line dividing the earth from the sky.

Foreground

Horizon line Background stuff

Famous Impressionists:Edgar Degas

• Edgar Degas – famous for painting pictures of ballet dancers.

• Unlike many of the other Impressionist artists, he would sketch the scenery and people in person and paint them later in his studio.

Claude Monet• Claude Monet is known

the founder or creator of impressionism.

• Monet painted many series of objects in different lighting.

• His painting on the right: Impression: Sunrise gave birth to the name Impressionism.

http://youtu.be/7MBtnPERk4QVideo link ! 2 minutes

Modern Day- ImpressionistMarcus Krackowizer

Now you will create your own impressionist painting! Instructions

• You will capture any moment you would like in your painting!

• You have 3 options: 1. You can bring a picture from

home or pull one out of magazine (national geographic magazines provided)

2. Paint from memory or imagination

3. En Plein Air method by Looking out the window or painting something in the room (such as a friend working).

• You will be sharing you work with the class:

• Explaining the moment you captured and where you applied a dabbing method.

• Be sure to say at least one thing about a classmates work! Something you like or think they could work on and why!

Have FUN!!!

Student Working and Student product

Notice how the students are using the dabbing method!

Created By Jennifer Iatarola

Resources: • Google images • http://www.ducksters.com/history/art/impressionism.php

• http://www.modern-impressionist.com/

• http://art.scholastic.com/issues/12_01_12/Teaching-Resources