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11AART - Modern Art Timeline: Impressionism

This guide contains resources related to the study of modern art movements for Year 11 Visual Arts ATAR.

Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather by Camille Pissarro (1896)

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Le dejeuner des canotiers by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1880-81)

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Paris Street; Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte (1877)

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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet (1872)

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A Bar at the Folies-Bergere by Edouard Manet (1882)

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Dance at Le moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1876)

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Water Lilies by Claude Monet (1890s-1920s)

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About Impressionism

Impressionism was a major movement, first in painting and later in music, that developed chiefly in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Impressionist painting comprises the work produced between about 1867 and 1886 by a group of artists who shared a set of related approaches and techniques. The most conspicuous characteristic of Impressionism in painting was an attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and colour. 

The principal Impressionist painters were Claude MonetPierre Auguste RenoirCamille PissarroAlfred SisleyBerthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin, and Frédéric Bazille, who worked together, influenced each other, and exhibited together. Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne also painted in an Impressionist style for a time in the early 1870s. The established painter Édouard Manet, whose work in the 1860s greatly influenced Monet and others of the group, himself adopted the Impressionist approach about 1873.

Impressionism. (2018). In Encyclopædia Britannica.

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