FAH245H1 Lecture : Impressionism
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While manet was interested in describing the surface of the canvas, 2d or 3d, monet, though still relying on illusion of depth + movement, needs the viewer to step back to see it. > sense of ephemerality that implicates the whole body of the viewer, as viewer steps forth to see rough strokes, also steps back to see the whole impression. Were originally put in art institutions, at the end of 19th c. , is the center of these institutions. > he stopped once he realized the result he had. Informality, speed, looseness of brushwork, the capturing of vast, natural phenomena, become components of impressionism. Shows us what was demanded of formally trained painters as they completed formal works: etude , sketches, croquis , compositional sketch; different parts put together in relation to the space completed, final. Compositional sketch is inferior to the final painting. Up till this point, artists made their own pigment using organic materials => allows painting outdoors.
