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Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet 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.
American Impressionist painters (4 C, 224 P) Australian Impressionist painters (1 C, 8 P) Austrian Impressionist painters (3 P) B. Belgian Impressionist painters (14 P)
The American impressionist Mary Cassatt, who at one point lived in Paris to study art, and joined his Impressionist group, noted that he was "such a teacher that he could have taught the stones to draw correctly." [9] Caribbean author and scholar Derek Walcott based his book-length poem, Tiepolo's Hound (2000), on Pissarro's life. [32]
Frank W. Benson, Eleanor Holding a Shell, North Haven, Maine, 1902, private collection. American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. [1]
Monet has been described as "the driving force behind Impressionism". [89] Crucial to the art of the Impressionist painters was the understanding of the effects of light on the local colour of objects, and the effects of the juxtaposition of colours with each other. [90]
The Amarillo showing of the traveling exhibit is the second in the U.S. after its European run, and it features works by Van Gogh, Monet and more.