Impressionism

Question 1

Answer 1

-Edouard Manet

Wellborn, well-educated Parisian

Painted crowds at a race track, the habitués of cafés, Sunday sailors on the Seine

Painted outdoors, using colors as close to those in nature as the human eye could make them

Boating, 1874

Friends with Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir

Made a personal forte of plein-air (open air) painting

Chief aim was to capture the evanescent effects of light and movement in landscape

Question 2

Answer 2

-Auguste Renoir

Friends with Manet, also painted outdoors

Oarsmen at Chatou, 1879

Bright Parisian faces, figures and movement, caught in fleeting moments

Question 3

Departure from Impressionism

Answer 3

• with friend Edgar Degas, Manet abandoned his interests in the goals of Impressionism
• grew less concerned with recording natural light in open air

more absorbed in rendering form

-broke down the notion—prevalent since the Renaissance—that the canvas is to be a window on the world

painting should be nothing more and nothing less than an arrangement of colors, lines, and shapes on a flat surface

that arrangement had its own logic. Its own beauty

this breakthrough inspired many artists, and glorified French painting by the last third of the 1800s

Americans: James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt

Dutchman Vincent van Gogh

French: Paul Cézanne