Group 3 - Impressionism

Key points within presentation:

• The impressionist artists were not trying to paint a realistic picture, but an ‘impression’ of what the person, object or landscape looked like to them. (This is why they are called impressionists). They wanted to capture the movement and life of what they saw and show it to us as if it is happening before our eyes. 
• It began with Japonism. Japonism is the study of Japanese artwork for European artists. Ukiyo-e was Japanese woodblock prints that were created by Japanese artists and it was established in Japanese painting schools. Not only were goods traded amongst Europeans and Japanese but Japanese art traditions and elaborate designs were as well. 
• Painting had various sanctions because of the decline of Romanticism.
• Before Impressionism, Realism was the prominent movement of the time. Realism, unlike Impressionism, lacked exotic components and mainly focused on depicting the real world accurately. Essentially, “Realism is what we see, Impressionism is how we see.”
• Impressionism was a radical departure from the rigid traditions of Realist painting because it promoted artistic freedom and captured the feeling one felt when looking at areas and people.

• Some female impressionists: 

• Eva Gonzalès: her upper-class status provided her with the financial resources to pursue her artistic career and, after training for a while with Charles Joshua Chaplin
• In 1869, she met the avant-garde painter, Édouard Manet
• he was very drawn to Gonzalès 
• Friendship + he took her on as his student. 

Eva Gonzalès, Morning Awakening, 1876

• Julia Beck:  She was a Swedish artist and received the award Legion of Honour in 1934 while in France. 
• She created many landscape pieces. 
• Many women who she is met in Sweden gave up painting when they were married. Beck decided that her passion for art was more essential to her thus she was never married. This was rare for female artists during this time because it was difficult for them to make a decent living strictly based on their artworks. 

Julia Beck, River Landscape from Montcourt, 1884

• Claire Mccall: a modern-day impressionist painter, who focuses on capturing everyday moments in time. Most of her pieces are either of families or young children. 
• She encourages the viewer to complete the story themselves, by filling in the blanks about time, place, thought and emotion.

Claire Mccall, Dad and the Boys iii, 2016

• Bibliography: 
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