Impressionism (art)

Edouard Manet
Portrait by: Nadar
Year: 1874

Impressionism started in the late 1860s in France, it began by a group of friends – Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley and Degas. When they used to meet, they used to talk about situations that were happening in that time. These kind of artists were more interested in the effect of light than the real scene, that’s why they used to paint outside. They also used to leave strokes visible by which they used to get criticized for their unfinished work.

During that time Edouard Manet and friends brought up another revolution, that included the rendering of colours which is compared to the revolution about representation of forms, which was brought up by the Greeks. That time the artist didn't want to exhibit there but they were forced by the jury, people that time went in a rush to see their work and people laughed at the artist. Because of that Manet got really annoyed so he went looking for inspiration from the Pre-Raphaelites to the great Venetians Giorgione to titan and towards the nineteenth century by Goya. 

Some painters in that time joined to help Manet, among them was a poor young man Claude Monet from Le Havre. Monet`s idea was that all paintings of nature had to be done on the spot. He used to paint as the older painters by first applying a brown base and then continued working with rapid strokes. 

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                            Name: The balcony                                                  Name: Group on a balcony                  
                                                  Year: 1868-1869                                                          Year: 1810-1815                                                                  Artist: Edouard Manet                                            Artist: Francisco Goya                 

This painting is a challenge that he did through inspiration from a painting that Goya did. There are lots of differences between one drawing and another the heads are not modelled in any manner, solid bodies and flat heads. All he wanted to do is to express the shadow and light. 

Name: The Races at Longchamp
Year: 1865
Artist:  Edouard Manet

In this drawing Manet wanted to give out the impression of light, speed and movement by giving out forms emerging out of the confusion.

Name: Monet working in his boat
Year: 1874
Artist Edourd Manet

He visited Monet and he was impressed by the youngs man method so he  paintied this as a tribute, by showing  Monet while working in his open-air studio

Name: Gare St-Lazre
Year: 1877
Artist: Claude Monet

Here in this painting Monet wasn't interested in the railway station but he was amazed from the effects that were coming through the glass roof .

2000-2014. HeilBrunn TimeLine of Art History [online] Available at: <http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm> [accessed on 28th march,2014]