Impressionism: the New Painting Art History September 13, 2007 Grade 12 Visual Arts Ms LeRoy Neo Classicism: the old painting. David, The Oath of Horatii French Realism Gustave Courbet, Burial at Ornans douard Manet Djeuner sur lherbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863 Manets Olympia Titians Venus of Urbino Giorgiones Sleeping Venus James M Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, 1875 James Abbott McNeil Whistler, Arrangement in Black and Gray (Portrait of the Artists Mother), 1871 Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1872 Monets Rouen Cathedral Edgar Degas, Absinthe, 1876 Pierre-August Renoir, Le Moulin De La Galette, 1876 Mary Cassatt, Girl Arranging her Hair, 1886 Monet IMPRESSIONISM Notes Early 1860s, France. Paris was still a medieval city up until the time when Napolean III (Bonepartes nephew) proclaims himself ruler and appoints Baron Haussmann to modernize Paris for political and aesthetic reasons. Haussmann supervises urban design of drainage, sewers, clean water, bridges, fountains, public parks to discourage revolutionary activities and uprisings. Impressionism rejects Renaissance perspective, balanced composition, idealized figures and chiaroscuro Represented immediate visual sensations through colour and light Influenced by Japanese woodblock prints that were appearing on the market was interested in the effects of light and color based on observation, not interested in politics or religion "art for art's sake" (Whistler) used broken color, rather than flat Impressionism began in France with a group of artists interested in color Claude Monet was the leader of the Impressionist movement. He used diffused light and color to create composition Impression: Sunrise, 1872, oil on canvas.Impression: Sunrise one critic advised that small children or pregnant women should not see this work Period that lasted only 15 years