Ex. 5, p. 69. 

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a louse association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise, which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari.

Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes» open composition, emphasis on the accurate depiction of light іn its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. The emergence of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous movements in other media which became known as Impressionist music and Impressionist literature,

Impressionism also describes art created in this style, but outside of the late 19th century time period.

 

a person

a genre

a trend

characteristic

to create

an artist

still life

constructivism

brilliant

to depict

a master

a seascape

baroque

distinguished

to reflect

a painter

icon painting

impressionism

prominent

to portray

a portraitist

landscape

avant-garde

outstanding

to describe

a landscape

social realism

 

famous

to capture

 

primitive painting

   
 

portrait painting