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=media type="youtube" key="vuugp3lmslI&rel=1" height="355" width="425"= Van Gough -- Starry Night Seurat: The Circus Renoir: Nude in the Sunlight, = = =Period 8 Impressionism Research= French Impressionist painting is currently the most popular of all European bodies of art. Part of the romance of Impressionism comes from the stories of uphill struggles against the Academic painters and critics who dominated 19th-century French art, only to be swept into obscurity by the artists they had scorned. However, a reaction was bound to set in, and during the final decades of the 20th century, a number of politically oriented critics began to argue that far from being radicals, the Impressionists appealed to bourgeois tastes partly because their technique was easy to digest and their subject matter inoffensive. They point out that the industrialization of Europe is rarely reflected in their works, and that they paid little or no attention to the sufferings of the urban poor. Many of them were acutely conscious of their popularity, and eager to cash in on it. This school of thought has had next to no impact on popular opinion, which still embraces the Impressionists fervently; but it did have an apparent impact on the series we are using for this course: //Art of the Western World,// hosted by Michael Wood. Rather than devoting an entire episode to the Impressionists, he covers them rather hastily in a much larger context. Since I find the "case" against the Impressionists rather shallow, I am supplementing the videotape you will be watching with this Web assignment, to give you a broader acquaintance with this important art movement. Characteristics of Impressionist painting include visible brushstrokes, open [|composition], emphasis on light in 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]. Art from this period http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/19_ptg.html Post-Impressionism developed from Impressionism. From the 1880s several artists began to develop different precepts for the use of color, pattern, form, and line, derived from the Impressionist example: [|Vincent Van Gogh], [|Paul Gauguin], [|Georges Seurat], and [|Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]. These artists were slightly younger than the Impressionists, and their work is known as post-Impressionism. Some of the original Impressionist artists also ventured into this new territory; [|Camille Pissarro] briefly painted in a [|pointillist] manner, and even Monet abandoned strict //plein air// painting. [|Paul Cézanne], who participated in the first and third Impressionist exhibitions, developed a highly individual vision emphasizing pictorial structure, and he is more often called a post-Impressionist. Although these cases illustrate the difficulty of assigning labels, the work of the original Impressionist painters may, by definition, be categorized as Impressionism. Impressionistic literature can basically be defined as when an author centers his story/attention on the character's mental life such as the character's impressions, feelings, sensations and emotions, rather than trying to interpret them. Authors such as [|Virginia Woolf] (//Mrs Dalloway//) and [|Joseph Conrad] (//[|Heart of Darkness]// and "The Lagoon") are among the foremost creators of the type. These novels have been said to be the finest examples of a genre which is not easily comprehensible. The term is used to describe a work of literature characterized by the selection of a few details to convey the sense impressions left by an incident or scene. This style of writing occurs when characters, scenes, or actions are portrayed from a subjective point of view of reality.
 * Impressionism** was a 19th century [|art movement] that began as a loose association of [|Paris]-based [|artists], who began [|exhibiting] their art publicly in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a [|Claude Monet] work, //[|Impression, Sunrise] (Impression, soleil levant)//, which provoked the critic [|Louis Leroy] to [|coin] the term in a satiric review published in //[|Le Charivari]//.
 * Impressionism** also describes art created in this style, but outside of the late 19th century time period.

Musical Impressionism was based in [|France], and the French composers [|Claude Debussy] and [|Maurice Ravel] are generally considered to be the two "great" Impressionists. However, composers are generally not as accurately described by the term "Impressionism" as [|painters] in the genre are. Debussy renounced it, saying "I am trying to do 'something different'- in a way realities- what the imbeciles call `impressionism' is a term which is as poorly used as possible, particularly by art critics."[|[1]] [|Maurice Ravel] composed many other pieces that aren't identified as Impressionist. Nonetheless, the term is widely used today to describe classical music seen as a reaction to 19th century Romanticis

History and origen of impressionism http://members.tripod.com/~Tatiyana/impressionism.htm

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Mozart http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/best-of-vivaldi-mozart-bach.html

Monet's paintings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet#Gallery_of_later_paintings

Artists of European Impressionism http://www.artfact.com/features/viewStyle.cfm?gID=5