Impressionism


 * [[image:http://www.osnatfineart.com/images/Madame-Monet-and-Her-Son.gif width="332" height="407" align="right" caption="Girl with Umbrella by Claude Monet"]] Impressionism is an art movement that was started by a group of French painters who decided to discard old ways of doing art. Some artists replaced lines by tiny dots. Dark shadows became colorful and bright. These painters often enjoyed painting outside. This is where the term plein air painting got started. Plein air means "outside" in French. Artists began to discard old painting supplies and picked up box easels and panting tubes, allowing them to easily travel outdoors with their supplies.

Some of the techniques used by impressionistic artists, many of which help to achieve the soft dreamy look art: - Impasto: - painting with thick strokes of paint - Plein Air: Painting outside - Mixing complementary colors for shadows - Special attention given to light - Mixing paint by brushing a new color on the wet canvas by softly mixing the color.

Some famous impressionist artist:


 * Georges Seurat
 * Mary Cassatt
 * Paul Cezanne
 * Edgar Degas
 * Edouard Manet
 * Claude Monet
 * Camille Pissarro
 * Pierre-Auguste Renoir ||
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 * [[image:seurat.jpg caption="George Seurat painted with dots, a technique knows as Pointillism"]] || [[image:cassat.jpg width="257" height="342" caption="Painting by Mary Cassatt. She was known as a "painter of mothers""]] || [[image:Gainsborough-blue-boy.jpg width="173" height="320" caption="The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough. This is the style of art before Impressionism. Note the dark colors compared to the other three pictures."]] ||