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IMPRESSIONISM
A lost Art
By Hugh O'Neill
"I could only be myself once I had got rid of Impressionism " Renoir to Vollard..
If you want to paint like an impressionist you must understand what the impressionists founders actually said about painting..Are you surprised at the above statement by Renoir....?
I will be sharing little known facts and info about this style of art and debunking the myths and fables surrounding the art form that you know as IMPRESSIONISM .I call (Impressionism) and utilize myself a method known as..... TONAL FORM.Its a method that was also used by Monet,Sargent,Gruppe etc
In 1874, a group of artists called the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc. organized an exhibition in Paris that launched the movement called Impressionism. Its founding members included Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Camille Pissarro, among others. The group was unified only by its independence from the official Salon,The independent artists, despite their diverse approaches to painting, appeared to contemporaries as a group.The exhibiting collective group avoided choosing a title that would imply a unified movement at their exhibtions.Hece this. ....
"THE IMPRESSIONISTS STUDY COLOR EXCLUSIVELY BUT WITHOUT FREEDOM ALWAYS SHACKLED BY THE NEED OF PROBABALITY.THEY HEED ONLY THE EYE AND SO FALL INTO MERELY SCIENTIFIC REASONING.WHEN THEY SPEAK OF ART,WHAT IS IT?A PURELY SUPERFICIAL THING,FULL OF AFFECTIONS AND ONLY MATERIAL.IN IT THOUGHT DOES NOT EXIST"Gauguin
Can Gauguin now be placed in the Impressionism camp, given what he really thought above ?
For me this seemingly negative comment is actually a good stepping stone to understanding the true mechanics of the painting in style
HUGH O'NEILL
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