CAS AH 287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Pochade, Brushstrokes, Claude Monet

• School: Boston University
• Department: History of Art & Architecture
• Course: CAS AH 287
• Professor: Jonathan Ribner

Document Summary

Landscapes had to be done outdoors on the spot so that the artist could. Monet: visual sensations into paint immediately time he realized that the carefully finished paint surface of academic altogether unsuited to achieving that goal. In the late 1860s, claude monet (1840-1926), pierre-auguste renoir (1841-1919) and others painted in a new style, called impressionism by contemporaries. The name was first used by critics, viewing a new exhibition held in 1874, and was directed precisely and derisively at a painting by monet of a harbor at dawn, which he titled impression: sunrise. This painting is a striking example of the new style. Impression sunrise, claude monet, 1873. painting was translate his. The sun is set against the dawn, the orange color against the gray and the vibrant force of the sun against its motionless surroundings. To many spectators, the sun undulates or pulsates slightly. The sun is nearly the same luminance as the grayish clouds.