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La Promenade is an oil on canvas, early Impressionist painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, created in 1870.The work depicts a young couple on an excursion outside of the city, walking on a path through a woodland. [1]
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
The painting depicts an open-air scene, crowded with people at a popular dance garden on the Butte Montmartre close to where he lived. The works of his early maturity were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling color and light. One of a series, Blonde Bather (1881), marked a distinct change in style following a trip ...
Paintings of the Impressionist style. Subcategories. This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total. B. Paintings by Frédéric Bazille (13 P) ...
The First Impressionist Exhibition was an art exhibition held by the Société anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, etc., [a] a group of nineteenth-century artists who had been rejected by the official Paris Salon and pursued their own venue to exhibit their artworks.
In 1941 Bell won first prize at an exhibition held by the Long Island Federation of Women's Club. [5] Today, Bell's paintings are still used in exhibitions in many Long Island museums and Galleries. A few of the artist clubs that Bell belonged too were: [1] Allied Artists of Long Island; Gloucester Society of Artists; Guild Hall Museum
He was devoted to colors created by the sun. “Color is then unlimited, as the sun is ever changing,” he said. [3] A biography titled Richard Earl Thompson, American Impressionist: A Prophetic Odyssey in Paint was published in 1982 [10] and written by art historian Patricia Jobe Pierce. During the summer of 1990 a film crew visited his ...
Impression, Sunrise (French: Impression, soleil levant) is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet first shown at what would become known as the "Exhibition of the Impressionists" in Paris in April, 1874. The painting is credited with inspiring the name of the Impressionist movement. Impression, Sunrise depicts the port of Le Havre, Monet's hometown.