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Appreciation Basics - Modern Art Period - IMPRESSIONISM - 1870 to 1900
Spun off from realism,
Impressionism took the act of seeing to a new level, thanks to an obsession with
light and color. Impressionists painted the light they could see, using
countless little dabs of paint. Claude Monet was the founder of the
movement and its most consistent practitioner. In short, impressionism is
obsessed with tons of colors, and as the movie Clueless so eloquently put it,
impressionist paintings look normal from far away, "but close up, it's a big ol'
mess."
What not to say: the same
image painted two or more times under different lighting conditions.
What to say: "Look closely.
All the colors in the painting are represented in every square inch of the
canvas."
