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This seemingly casual style became widely accepted, even in the official Salon, as the new language with which to depict modern life. In addition to their radical technique, the bright colors of Impressionist canvases were shocking for eyes accustomed to the more sober colors of academic painting. Many of the independent artists chose not to apply the thick golden varnish that painters customarily used to tone down their works.
The paints themselves were more vivid as well. Depicted in a radically cropped, Japanese-inspired composition , the fashionable boater and his companion embody modernity in their form, their subject matter, and the very materials used to paint them. Such images of suburban and rural leisure outside of Paris were a popular subject for the Impressionists, notably Monet and Auguste Renoir. Several of them lived in the country for part or all of the year.
New railway lines radiating out from the city made travel so convenient that Parisians virtually flooded into the countryside every weekend. The boating and bathing establishments that flourished in these regions became favorite motifs. Landscapes , which figure prominently in Impressionist art, were also brought up to date with innovative compositions, light effects, and use of color. Monet in particular emphasized the modernization of the landscape by including railways and factories, signs of encroaching industrialization that would have seemed inappropriate to the Barbizon artists of the previous generation.
Perhaps the prime site of modernity in the late nineteenth century was the city of Paris itself, renovated between and under Emperor Napoleon III. His prefect, Baron Haussmann, laid the plans, tearing down old buildings to create more open space for a cleaner, safer city. Also contributing to its new look was the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War —71 , which required reconstructing the parts of the city that had been destroyed.
Impressionists such as Pissarro and Gustave Caillebotte enthusiastically painted the renovated city, employing their new style to depict its wide boulevards, public gardens, and grand buildings. The Paris population explosion after the Franco-Prussian War gave them a tremendous amount of material for their scenes of urban life.
Characteristic of these scenes was the mixing of social classes that took place in public settings. Degas and Caillebotte focused on working people, including singers and dancers , as well as workmen. In terms of the French Impressionists' lasting popularity and fame, Renoir is perhaps second only to Monet.
Camille Pissarro. Known as the "Father of Impressionism," he used his own painterly style to depict urban daily life, landscapes, and rural scenes. Alfred Sisley. Alfred Sisley was an English Impressionist landscape painter who spent much of his life working in France. As an enthusiast of plein air painting, Sisley was among the group of artists that included Monet, Renoir and Pissarro who dedicated themselves to capturing the transient effects of sunlight.
He was a true Impressionist and committed landscape painter who never deviated from this style or subject into figurative work like many of his contemporaries. Mary Cassatt. Mary Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker active in France in the late nineteenth century.
She was closely associated with Impressionism, and her signature subjects were intimate, domestic scenes of women, mothers, and children. John Singer Sargent. John Singer Sargent was the premiere portraitist of his generation, well-known for his depictions of high society figures in Paris, London, and New York. He updated a centuries-old tradition in order to capture his sitters' character and even reputation. Berthe Morisot. Berthe Morisot came from a family with a long history of successful painters.
She was the only woman painter accepted and respected by the Impressionist circle. Morisot served as a model for Manet, married his brother, and went on to have a meaningful art career herself. Childe Hassam. Childe Hassam is one of the giants of American Impressionism - he turned his art into an industry that mirrored the rapid industrialization of America at the turn of the twentieth century. In hundreds of works, he strove to depict both the frenzied pace of city life as well as the unspoiled expanses of nature.
James Whistler. James Whistler was a nineteenth-century American expatriate artist. Educated in France and later based in London, Whistler was a famous proponent of art-for-art's-sake, and an esteemed practictioner of tonal harmony in his canvases, often characterized by his masterful use of blacks and greys, as seen in his most famous work, Whistler's Mother Whistler was also known as an American Impressionist, and in he famously turned down an invitation from Degas to exhibit his work with the French Impressionists.
William Merritt Chase. The American painter William Merritt Chase brought Impressionism to America, disseminating its methods through his works and teachings. Realism is an approach to art that stresses the naturalistic representation of things, the look of objects and figures in ordinary life.
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