Impressionism is an abstract style of French art that began in the 19th century. To me impressionist’s during that time really captured the image of a person or an object and made it come to life in the painting. With wonderful bold and bright use of color,many of the impressionist artists of that time like Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, and Edouard Manet all seem to put a lot of emotion into their works. One of my favorite French artists of this time was a man named Edouard Manet . Even though Claude Monet created the style “Impressionism”, it was Manet that really helped this once “realism” style transition into a “Impressionistic” one. One of his most famous painting titled “Luncheon on the Grass“, or ”Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe” really caught my eye. This piece was created in 1862 in Paris and was first shown in the “Salon des Refuses” in 1863. This is a wonderful example of Manet’s rebellious/controversial style, publicly showing a woman naked lying in the grass and a woman coming up from the water drying herself off, all the while there are two fully clothed men in-between them.
Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe
Post-Impressionism continued on the “Impressionism” style of art but furthered the artists concern for “expression, structure, and from” in works. Artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso used “palette colors that were purified and intensified.” Overall I would have to say the Romantic era’s “Impressionism” style has been my favorite type of style out of all the eras. There is just something about this era’s style that I absolutely cant get enough of!
Paul Gauguin's "The Yellow Christ" painted in 1889 in Pont-Aven
Interesting summary. Le Déjeuner never really was one of my favorites, but Olympia and A Bar at Folies-Bergère are lovely Manet paintings.