The style

The impressionist style

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

 

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………

 
 

The balançoire

Pierre Auguste Renoir 1876

The light spouting

The light introduces itself everywhere, it jumbles the forms and reduces them to stains of Color.

 

Claude Monet

Régates in Argenteuil (detail) about 1872

 

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.

 
 

Pierre auguste Renoir

The Seine in Asniéres about 1879

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.

 

Claude Monet

The bridge of Europe about 1877

 

Modernity

The contemporary subjects are very present : urban landscapes and modern constructions .

 
 

Pierre Auguste Renoir

The mill of the galette - 1876

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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