IMPRESSIONISM HISTORY _ ART AND FACT, POST-IMPRESSIONISM
What is impressionism?
Impressionism as an art style came to be back within the late 19th century and wasn't well-received in its time. With visible brush strokes and brighter color schemes, painters were creating a method that focused more on the effect of a scene and didn't conform to the realism that was the accepted style. Impressionism defined a wholly new expression of artistry that may wear off in other fields like photography, filmmaking, and literature anon.
History of impressionism
Impressionism had its beginnings in France in 1874. That year a group called the Cooperative and Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptures, and Engravers set up the first exhibition of their work in the studio belonging to Felix Nadar in Marseilles, who was himself a famous photographer. This group of artists included names such as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Camille Pissaro. They joined by other artists, including Paul Cezanne, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Berthe Morisot. This group totaling 30 separate artists, held eight exhibits between the years of 1874 and 1886.
The artists held these exhibits as many of them were being rejected year after year from displaying their works at the Salon de Paris, exhibitions held by the Academie des Beaux-Arts. The Academie was a school widely considered the authority in the realist French painting styles accepted during the period. They also regularly rejected a large body of art every year to the admiration of many of these artists. Eventually, Emperor Napoleon III decreed the Salon of the Refused's creation, an exhibition composed entirely of works rejected by the school.
The Name - Why is it called Impressionism?
The word “Impressionist” came from a review received by Monet and Cezanne after art critic Louis Leroy gave them a scathing review in 1874 in the satirical newspaper Le Charivari. After seeing Monet’s painting of Impression Sunrise, he famously wrote:
Impression—I was sure of it. Since I was impressed, I was just telling myself that there had to be some impression in it and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.
It took only a short time before “Impressionism” achieved widespread familiarity with both critics and artists.
The impressionist art style of painting is characterized chiefly by concentrating on the general impression produced by a scene or object and using unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light. The most conspicuous characteristic of Impressionism painting was an endeavor to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of sunshine and color. The Impressionist painters often worked “en Plein Air,” or outdoors, to capture the fleeting effects of sunlight and atmosphere in quick brushstrokes of bold, unmixed color applied on to the canvas.
What Is Post-Impressionist Art?
Post-Impressionism - art
Impressionism and post-impressionism are mainly associated with the French impressionist painters. However, artists in other countries also developed their Impressionism brand, which has become unique in many different ways. French Impressionism was bourgeois, while Soviet Impressionism was proletarian. Russian and Ukrainian Impressionism is one of the most brilliant and undiscovered areas in the whole of Russian Art. Russian Impressionism has already become very popular in the West. However, the magnificent works produced by the Southern Russian School of Art are still relatively unknown to the Western art critic. Although certain painters such as Konstantin Lomykin from Odessa have become enormously popular with Western collectors and their paintings are much sought after worldwide, there was recently a major exhibition devoted to Konstantin Lomykin held in the Domsburg Art Museum, The Netherlands. The Southern Russian School can be characterized by much light, almost absent in Moscow and St. Petersburg School of Art.
"The messiah of 'new art' didn't exactly arrive in 1917 in a sealed train carriage from the southern sea. But all his zealous followers' efforts couldn't destroy in Odessa the strong tradition of Russian "en Plein air" painting. Today from afar, from the sunny steps of the Southern Russian Impressionists – the singers of sun and light with childlike innocence and awe who idolized the beauty of the tempered state of nature, who tried to reach with this beauty our hearts which have been hardened by reflection are coming back to us." G.Shestakov (collector).
Quoted from a book: "100 years of Southern Russian Impressionism", 2003. Moscow-Tver'.
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