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11 unusual facts about impressionism


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Grohar (1867–1911) was an Impressionist painter and is considered one of the leading figures of Slovene impressionism.

Alfred Lichtwark

In addition to his heavy interest in French Impressionism, he advocated strongly for the Hamburg art scene.

Earl L. Stendahl

Earl L. Stendahl (born Earl Leopold Steendahl; December 11, 1888 - May 18, 1966) was a pioneering American art dealer known for promoting California Impressionism, modern and pre-Columbian art.

Juste Milieu

The Juste Milieu art movement (meaning “middle way” or “happy medium”) is a term originally used to describe a form of painting and philosophy that reconciled two dominant art movements in 19th century France between the conservative, academic artists and the independent artists known as the Impressionists.

Kuroda Seiki

For most of his career, Kuroda painted in a style which, though basically Impressionistic, owed much to his academic training as well.

Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky

Kotsiubynsky's early stories were described as examples of ethnographic realism; in the years to come, with his style of writing becoming more and more sophisticated, he evolved into one of the most talented Ukrainian impressionist and modernist writers.

Neo-impressionism

Ogden Rood’s book, Modern Chromatics, with Applications to Art and Industry, acknowledged the different behaviors exhibited by colored light and colored pigment.

Post-Impressionism

Modernism, thus, is now considered to be the central movement within international western civilization with its original roots in France, going back beyond the French Revolution to the Age of Enlightenment.

To meet the recent discussion, the connotations of the term 'Post-Impressionism' were challenged again: Alan Bowness and his collaborators expanded the period covered to 1914, but limited their approach widely on the 1890s to France.

The Night Café

Unlike typical Impressionist works, the painter does not project a neutral stance towards the world or an attitude of enjoyment of the beauty of nature or of the moment.

Westwood, Los Angeles

The Hammer, as it is commonly known, is particularly notable for its collection of Impressionist art and cutting-edge modern art exhibitions.


19th-century French art

Impressionism would take the Barbizon school one further, rejecting once and for all a belabored style (and the use of mixed colors and black), for fragile transitive effects of light as captured outdoors in changing light (in part inspired by the paintings of J. M. W. Turner).

Anatole Andrejew

Now retired, he divides his time between Paris and Honfleur in Normandy, where he paints Post-Impressionist art, mainly views of French cities and landscapes.

Arthur Hill Gilbert

In a 2001 article entitled "California Impressionism" (www.eppraisals.com, 02/20/01) which discussed the resurgence of interest in this style of early 20th-century art, Victoria Shaw-Williamson (correspondent at the time for www.keen.com) wrote, "Notably, the attention garnered by big names such as Guy Rose is filtering down to other artists as well. Paintings by artists such as John Gamble, Arthur Hill Gilbert, and Mary Denil Morgan are now bringing higher than expected prices."

Bourron-Marlotte

In the second half of the 19th century, it was visited by several impressionist painters including Alfred Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Cézanne.

Chminianska Nová Ves

Pál Szinyei Merse - one of the most well-known rapresentativ of Hungarian impressionist painting

Classical Marimba League

Currently, up to five prizes are awarded, one in each style category (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionism & Contemporary).

David Monrad Johansen

This piece and the Nordlands Trompet op. 13, are the most pure nationalistic of Monrad Johansen’s works, and often called a Norwegian impressionism.

Dean Edwards

He developed several impressions, including Michael Jackson, Wayne Brady, Chris Tucker (Edwards' first impression; coincidentally, also an impression done by Jay Pharoah on his first SNL episode on September 25, 2010), Don Cheadle, Colin Powell, Serena Williams, Nipsey Russell, Grace Jones, Randy Jackson, Redman, Denzel Washington, and Billy Ocean.

Death of Vincent van Gogh

The death of Vincent van Gogh, the Dutch post-Impressionist painter, occurred in the early morning of 29 July 1890, in his room at the Auberge Ravoux in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise in northern France.

Dufrenoy

Georges Dufrénoy (1870–1943), French artist and post-Impressionism painter

Fernando Fader

His landscapes quickly established him as a Post-impressionist painter at a time when local critics were still partial to Impressionism, however, and this motivated Fader to join other artists similarly out of favor with conservative Argentine audiences, such as Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós, the sculptor Rogelio Yrurtia and Martín Malharro (whose earlier, Impressionist work had - ironically - established the genre locally in 1902).

Francis Focer Brown

Notably, unlike many other impressionists of the era, Brown began to expand the boundaries of impressionism far beyond many of his contemporaries with departures that encompassed both the Fauve and Expressionist movements.

Frantz Seimetz

He was the first Luxembourger to delve into Impressionism and the first, after Nicolas Liez, to paint out in the open air.

Frey Wille

Among other artists whose styles are used by Frey Wille in the creation of their product collection are, most notably, Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, one of the founders of impressionism Claude Monet, and Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, the father of Art Nouveau.

From Impressionism To Anime: Japan As Fantasy And Fan Cult In The Western Imagination

From Impressionism To Anime: Japan As Fantasy And Fan Cult In The Western Imagination is a scholarly book which connects Japanophilia, Orientalism, Japonisme and modern anime and manga fandom by Susan J. Napier published in 2007 by Palgrave Macmillan.

Genre art

Subsequently the Impressionists, as well as such 20th-century artists as Pierre Bonnard, Edward Hopper, and David Park painted scenes of daily life, but in the context of modern art the term "genre painting" has come to be associated mainly with painting of an especially anecdotal or sentimental nature, painted in a traditionally realistic technique.

George Biddle

Returning to Europe in 1914, Biddle spent time in Munich and Madrid, studying printmaking in the Spanish capital, before trying his hand at impressionism in France.

Henrietta Shore

Henrietta Shore (1880–1963) was a post-impressionist Canadian painter who exhibited contemporaneously with Georgia O'Keeffe and influenced the photographer Edward Weston.

Impressionist mosaics

Pioneering work in this field was conducted in the 1990s by California mosaic artist Roy Feinson, who because of its underlying similarities to 19th century impressionism coined the term Impressionist Mosaics.

Mike Wrathell

Like Dada, the name Ultra-Renaissance was created by the artists of the movement themselves, unlike Impressionism, whose name was coined by a French art critic who named it based on a painting by Claude Monet.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen

Despite the bequest by the mayor Fervaques, Dr. Jacquette, of paintings by Courbet, Boudin and Lepine, modern, especially impressionist artwork remained virtually unrepresented at the museum.

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Also in the collection are works by Johan Barthold Jongkind and Eugène Boudin, who are regarded as precursors of impressionism and were of central importance to the development of European landscape painting in the 19th century.

Patrick Bakker

Whereas the German expressionists or the Dutch painters of the De Ploeg movement (except perhaps George Martens) liked to use primary colours, Patrick Bakker, whilst staying clear of any hint of impressionism, cultivated bitter-sweet and dissonant juxtapositions, introducing often deliberately dirty hues, with a controlled violence of expression.

Purdey Fitzherbert

Fitzherbert categorizes herself mainly as an abstract painter, but also claims influences from Conceptual art movements, Op art, Minimalism, Impressionism, and Light art.

Richard Payne Knight

Knight makes much of the need to fragment an image into tonal and colouristic ‘masses’, a view that has been claimed to anticipate the late work of Turner, or even Impressionism.

Robert Antoine Pinchon

Robert Antoine Pinchon (July 1, 1886, Rouen – January 9, 1943, Bois-Guillaume) was a French Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School (l'École de Rouen) who was born and spent most of his life in France.

Roy Petley

His works have been likened to those of John Constable, Edward Seago, and Campbell Mellon, British painters whose styles were influenced by the Barbizon School and Impressionism.

Shirakabaha

The Shirakaba-ha thought highly of Western aesthetics (particularly Expressionism and Post-Impressionism), and considered their mission to spread the ideas of Western art and Western literature into Japan.

Synthetism

The term was first used in 1877 to distinguish between scientific and naturalistic impressionism, and in 1889 when Gauguin and Emile Schuffenecker organized an Exposition de peintures du groupe impressioniste et synthétiste in the Café Volpini at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.

Terrace at the Mall, Central Park

Terrace at the Mall, Central Park (French: Terrasse au centre commercial, Central Park) is an oil on panel painting by an American painter William Merritt Chase who was known as an exponent of Impressionism.

The Art Fund

Art critic Frank Rutter said it made him "boil with rage" that the Fund had spent thousands of pounds on Old Master paintings, some of which he considered of dubious merit or condition, but "would not contribute one half penny" to his appeal in 1905 to buy the first Impressionist painting for the National Gallery, although it welcomed the prestige of presenting the painting, Eugène Boudin's The Entrance to Trouville Harbour, the following year.

Thomas Sergeant Perry

In 1874, he married Lila Cabot Lilla Cabot Perry, an American painter who was an important figure in Impressionism in the United States.

Vasilije Mokranjac

Since the early 1970s Mokranjac has gradually transformed his style and achieved a synthesis of all compositional procedures that he had used in earlier decades with a new, refined, lyrical sound world, embroidered with elements of neo-impressionism and the New Simplicity.

Vétheuil

Impressionist painter Claude Monet lived in Vétheuil from 1878 to 1881, during which time he produced some 150 paintings.

Victor Noble Rainbird

Common works that Rainbird executed many times are of Dutch fisherfolk, the sea and seafront at and around North Shields, and impressions of Rouen and Amiens.

Włocławek

We can see here 2 stable exposition : "Włocławek`s Faience", "The Gallery of Polish portraits" with Józef Simmler, Teodor Axentowicz, impressionism by Leon Wyczółkowski, symbolism by – Jacek Malczewski and Vlastimil Hofman, secession by – Józef Mehoffer, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Wojciech Kossak, Alfons Karpiński, Olga Boznańska (1920s and 1930s), Anthony van Dyck or Marcello Bacciarelli.