SAINTANDREWSCHOOL

Impressionism            France, 1860's to 1880's 

Impressionist art is a style in which the artist captures the image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it. They paint the pictures with a lot of color and most of their pictures are outdoor scenes. Their pictures are very bright and vibrant. In 1874, a group of artists called the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc. organized an exhibition in Paris that launched the movement called Impressionism. Its founding members included Claude Monet,Edgar Degas, and Camille Pissarro, among others. The group was unified only by its independence from the official annual Salon, for which a jury of artists from the Académie des Beaux-Arts selected artworks and awarded medals. The independent artists, despite their diverse approaches to painting, appeared to contemporaries as a group. While conservative critics panned their work for its unfinished, sketchlike appearance, more progressive writers praised it for its depiction of modern life. Edmond Duranty, for example, in his 1876 essay La Nouvelle Peinture (The New Painting), wrote of their depiction of contemporary subject matter in a suitably innovative style as a revolution in painting. The exhibiting collective avoided choosing a title that would imply a unified movement or school, although some of them subsequently adopted the name by which they would eventually be known, the Impressionists. Their work is recognized today for its modernity, embodied in its rejection of established styles, its incorporation of new technology and ideas, and its depiction of modern life. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm

 

ARTIST:

Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet (1840-1926) is a famous French painter and one of the founders of the Impressionism movement along with his friends Renoir, Sisley and Bazille. Monet rejected the traditional approach to landscape painting and instead of copying old masters he had been learning from his friends and the nature itself. Monet observed variations of color and light caused by the daily or seasonal changes. Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840 on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte,in the ninth arrondissement of Paris. He was the second son Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise-Justine Aubree. On the first of April 1851, Monet entered the Le Havre secondary school of the arts. He became known locally for his charcoal caricatures, which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. Monet also undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-Francois Ochard, a former student of Jacques-Louis David. On the beaches of Normandy in about 1856/1857 he meet fellow artist Eugéne Boudin who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Boudin taught Monet "en plein air" (outdoor) techniques for painting.

 

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ABOUT THE ASSIGNMENT:

You will be creating your own impressionistic painting. The painting will include water, trees and a bridge using the same painting techniques as the impressionists.

 

MATERIALS:

•12" x 18" Blue construction paper 12x18• Tempera paint: White, Blue, Purple, Green•Brown/Grey Construction Paper and orange and red tissue paper.

 

INSTRUCTIONS / PROCEDURES:

http://www.theartofed.com/2012/06/11/teach-your-students-to-paint-like-an-impressionist/

1. Hold your paper in portrait style and create a horizon line with blue paint Start at the horizon line and work your way down, filling the whole paper with brush strokes using blue paint. Be sure to leave some paper showing in between!

2. Add some purple strokes to the water. 

3. Take white paint and go over your already wet blue paint to create a tint. Show where the light might be hitting the water when you add white. Never wipe off or rinse your brush. The depth of color will be much better this way.

4. Painting the Trees - Next, you will use the exact same technique to create trees above the horizon line and reflect them below in the water.

5. Design your own unique bridge using construction paper, and some construction paper water lilies and tissue paper, and you have an impressionist painting!

6. Finally. write a 250 word description of your work, why did you choose this era, what was most difficult about completing the project, what was most enjoyable about working on the project, in what ways does your project fit into the era you chose. Type your paper in "Arial font 14", Give your work a title,

 

 

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