Claude Monet Founder of French impressionist painting
Most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.
Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise
- He would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw instead of copying from old masters
- He found new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism
ELEMENTS
- COLOR
- VALUE
- TEXTURE
PRINCIPLES
- MOVEMENT
- EMPHASIS
by creating a welter of techniques and forms, Impressionism became a precursor of various styles of painting, including Neo-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism.
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