Look Back(1)---the impressionism

The Impressionism

   I am quite interested in painting these days. Bringing history back to life, I just want to note something down about the impressionism.

   It originated from The second half of the nineteenth Century. Edouard Manet，who was talked about in the lecture, was the initiator of the impressionism. 

                   Monet,Impression,Soleil(1873)

   Like all the bold attempts, Manet was criticized by the trad artists. They satirized Manet's messy brushwork. And the official stood against it because of its rebel.Nevertheless, people sorted Manet's work into Impressionism due to the name of the painting. 

                                Edouard Mane(1863)

   After the gallery, this painting received the most serious taunt. Those who stick-in-the-mud could not accept a naked woman who was having picnic with two gentleman. However, on the other side, those who were innovative enough chose to stand on Manet's side, such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley,Claude Monet,Camille Pissarro，Edgar Degas and so on.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

 

Alfred Sisley (1873)

                                   Claude Monet

Camille Pissarro

Edgar Degas

   Although impressionism was born in the criticism, it still played the role as a vanguard to stand against the classic and the romanticism. Most of the painters of the impressionism emphasized on the light and the color.

The neo-impressionism

   The neo-impressionism appeared right after the impressionism. It was an artistic revolution in the painting techniques. The neo-impressionism artists invented the stippling. That is the reason why they got a nickname called 'the stippling '.

The post-impressionism

 The post-impressionism is not the continua of the impressionism and the neo-impressionism. In stead of copying, it broke through both. The post-impressionism emphasized on the emotion beyond the painting itself.

Vincent Willem van Gogh