ISM PROJECT

IMPRESSIONISM

• Impressionism is the art of capturing light and its natural form. It originated with a group of Paris-based artists who independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s.

CLAUDE mONET

• Claude Monet was a famous French paint whose work gave a name to the art movement Impressionism. Monet struggled with depression which caused him to ruin 500 paintings. He used charcoal and oil paints to capture landscapes.

CAMILLE PISSARRO

• Pissarro is not like any other impressionist. Instead of focusing on city views, he focused on the day to day life of French peasants. Most of his studies were of the effect of light on color in nature. One of his most famous pieces, was famous for it's cool colors.

REALISM

• Realism is the art in the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificially and avoiding artist conventions, exotic, and supernatural elements.

PAUL GOSSELIN

• Paul Gosselin was a painter, draughtsman, pastellist of portraits, animal, city views, landscapes, still life, genre scenes, mythological, and religious composition in the realist, impressionist, orientalist, expressionist, pointillist, and symbolic style.

GUSTAVO COURBET

• Courbet focused on figurative compositions landscapes, and seascapes. He believed that the realist artist mission was the pursuit of truth, which could erase social contradictions and refused to hide imperfections.

NEOCLASSICISM

• Neoclassicism is used to draw attention to the classical art era in Ancient Rome. It focuses on decorative and visual art, literature, theatre, music,mane architecture.

WILLIAM MARLOW

• Marlow was a painter who was interested in landscapes from Ancient Rome and Greece. One of his favorite painters, was Claude Monet.

CHARLES THEVENIN

• Charles was well known for his paintings of the heroic scenes from the French Revolution and First French Empire, but was later also known for his bridge sketches and paintings.

SOURCES

• http://www.biography.com/people/claude-monet-9411771 http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=1167 http://galleryatthelake.com/artists/marlow.html http://www.theartstory.org/artist-pissarro-camille.htm http://www.theartstory.org/artist-courbet-gustave.htm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Th%C3%A9venin