The impressionist style
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The artistic research of the impressionists was extremely productive; it always keeps being analyzed and commented. Here are some of the most characteristics style features that they developed.
Camille Pissarro The red roofs, village corner, winter effect - 1877 |
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Colors' explosion The color takes place before the Outline or very the form; she overflows, she explodes. The color spots are bigger than the real objects that support them; it is really the impression which is painted |
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The balançoire Pierre Auguste Renoir 1876 |
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The light spouting The light introduces itself everywhere, it jumbles the forms and reduces them to stains of Color. |
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Claude Monet Régates in Argenteuil (detail) about 1872 |
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The third dimension The impressionist painter works the thickness more than he works the outline. It is the contrary of the classical paint, flat and precise. |
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Pierre auguste Renoir The Seine in Asniéres about 1879 |
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Reflections and stain The reflection in water is often used, this allows to set the painter free even more of the forms; then stains and colors juxtapose themselves like a symphony. |
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Claude Monet The bridge of Europe about 1877 |
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Modernity The contemporary subjects are very present : urban landscapes and modern constructions . |
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Pierre Auguste Renoir The mill of the galette - 1876 |
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Daily life The paintings often represent simple scenes of daily life, at work, in family, during the leisures. Pictures of groups or portraits, with ordinary people. |
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