Impressionism art Slideshow

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Do it yourself Impressionism Camouflage (by Pam Wellington)

Materials:

16x20 inch Canvas Board
Good quality acrylic paints (Dick Blick in jars).
Acrylic gloss medium
Pieces of heavy cardboard
Cut strips from Impressionist paintings, including horizon line, sky and ground.
Provide various color schemes for students to make their choice. Source of strips: calendars or internet images printed in color.

Procedures:

Activity One:

Create a scale of color from dark to light in 10 steps by using white to tint and black to shade. Use all three primaries and secondaries.

Create a scale in ten steps using complementary sets of: blue and orange, red and green, purple and yellow. The fifth step on the scale should be a neutral grey or brown.

Activity Two:

1. Select a strip from an Impressionist painting.
2. Glue the strip down to the surface of the canvas using acrylic gloss medium. All four sides of the strip must be on the canvas surrounded by white, not on an edge. 3. Gently squeegee out excess medium with a piece of cardboard until the strip of paper is flat to the surface with no bubbles or folds.
4. Select one predominant color that is on the strip and paint a wash of color over the whole canvas to “kill the white." The under-painting will give the whole painting a warm or cool feel.
5. Match the colors exactly all the way around the strip on all four sides.
6. Extend the composition out to the edges of the painting, continuing to accurately match colors and brush stroke techniques.
7. Many colors will have to be layered to get the exact match.
8. Colors must match hue, value and intensity exactly, so that the strip seems to disappear or is very hard to see.
9. Make sure that the strip is not painted over.
10. Keep compositions simple, without adding a lot of extra “stuff”, such as rivers, roads, buildings, trees, etc.

Impressionism Technique

Taken from wikipedia
1. Short, thick strokes of paint are used to quickly capture the essence of the subject.
2. Colours applied side-by-side with as little mixing as possible, creating a vibrant surface. The optical mixing of colours occurs in the eye of the viewer.
3. Grays and dark tones are produced by mixing complementary colours. In pure Impressionism the use of black paint is avoided.
4. Wet paint is placed into wet paint without waiting for successive applications to dry, producing softer edges and an intermingling of colour.
5. Painting in the evening to get effets de soir - the shadowy effects of the light in the evening or twilight.
6. Impressionist paintings do not exploit the transparency of thin paint films (glazes) which earlier artists built up carefully to produce effects. The surface of an Impressionist painting is typically opaque.
7. The play of natural light is emphasized. Close attention is paid to the reflection of colours from object to object.
8. In paintings made en plein air (outdoors), shadows are boldly painted with the blue of the sky as it is reflected onto surfaces, giving a sense of freshness and openness that was not captured in painting previously. (Blue shadows on snow inspired the technique.)

MONET'S STYLE
BROKEN COLOR: to achieve the actual sensation of light itself in a painting

What is Impressionism

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Claude Monet piece's above titled Sunrise is the beginning of impressionism. 1874, Journalists making fun of it and use the same word (impressionism) to mock it. Artists took the very same name to describe them.

Impressionist art is a style in which the artist captures the image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it. Sometimes the work appears to be slightly out of focus.
Impressionist art is best viewed from a distance, to allow the characteristic broken, dotted or flickering brush work - so effective in capturing the quality of light - to merge into a cohesive image.

Artists attempt to capture impressions of a scene, or the emotions a scene created in them.....painting in new style; wasn't highly finished nor realistic. Subjects were neither classical nor historical.

Impressionists favored subjects that appeared informal and spontaneous. They liked their paintings to reflect the life they saw around them; rural scenes, city life and people dressed in everyday clothing going about their business. The sketchiness of this style, with its quick, visible brushstrokes, made critics complain that the pictures did not look finished, that the work was sloppy

Manet prefered to paint everyday objects. Pissaro and Sisley painted the French countryside and river scenes. Degas enjoyed painting ballet dancers and horse races. Morisot painted women doing everyday things. Renoir loved to show the effect of sunlight on flowers and figures. Monet was interested in subtle changes in the atmosphere.