Art Movements.

... Art Movement Description Impressionism (1860 - 1888) * Paintings are personal impressions, views of contemporary life. * Artists of this time used smaller canvases, which allowed easy carrying on trains and across the countryside, thus, this art movement was also about the values of art and making art suit the needs of the people whom practiced it. * Light coloured ground. * Sketchy and loose painting technique gave an impressionism of landscape rather than realism. * Capturing the changing light and atmosphere. * Use of brighter and more vibrant colours like colours of the spectrum. * Eliminated as much oil as possible in the hope that light would bounce off the artwork. * Impressionists used a flat brush, which was able to block in colour broadly and quickly in short brushstrokes. * Impressionists became obsessed with this new approach to landscape painting. * Some Impressionists include: Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, August Renoir. * I like this art

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