Impressionist Painters

General Traits

• The beginning and the tyranny of the camera
  • Monet - Impression Sunrise
  • Color as reflected light
  • Use of color
    • Saturation
    • Broken color juxtaposition colors to be optically blended
• Atmospheric suggestion of form rather than strict depiction
• Painterly
  • Detail from Manet's Waitress Serving Bocks
• Blurred outlines
• Lack of detail
• Subject matter
  • Rejection of Romanticism
  • Everyday, a-emotional objects
  • Commonplace scenes and people
    • Monet Haystack (morning)
    • Monet Haystack (snowy morning)

Monet

• Japanese Bridge at Giverny
  • A painter of "series"
    • Japanese Bridge series
    • Water lily series
    • Cathedral series
  • A canvas with built-up Impasto retouched many times
• Red Boats (detail)

Manet

• Realist turned Impressionist
• Bar at the Folies-Bergere
  • Lack of detail
  • Use of Color - more prone to grey tones than Monet
  • "Drawing with paint"
• Style contrasted to Monet
• In the Conservatory
• Emile Zola (full) (detail)

Renoir

• A feminine hand
• Le Moulin de la Galette
  • Pastel colors
  • Subjects tend toward people at leisure
  • A softer application of paint
• Boating Party (full) (detail)

More extensive and full-sized art works may be seen in the Art Gallery

Humanities Resource of Mark Hunter