Group 6-- Presentation Summary -- Impressionism

Impressionism

Michelle Nguyen
Christine La Para
Kalyn Ndirangu

We started off the presentations with two slides dedicated to the male impressionist artists. They included four paintings by Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, and Claude Monet.

Pierre Aguste Renoir, The Great Boulevards, 1875

Edgar Degas,The Rehearsal, 1873-78

Claude Monet, Water Lilies 1916

The next slide we dedicated to actually introducing the techniques and styles that make up impressionism art. By doing this, we defined the term itself. The painting consisted of thick strokes of paint, emphasis on accurate depiction of light, nonhistorical and secular subject matter, and inclusion of movement.

Afterwards, we began introducing the female impressionist artists: Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, and Marie Bracquemond. The background of each artists are given in the following slides as well as their corresponding paintings. We picked paintings that would clearly depicts that the art work is indeed impressionism. Each painting have very distinct, visible brushstrokes. The colors are both bright and pastel. The subject matters aren't very detailed. At the end of our presentation, we asked the questions: What impression did Impressionism have on art?

The paintings we covered include but art not limited to:

Marie Bracquemond, On the Terrace  at Sevres, 

Musee du Petit Palais Geneva, Switzerland 1880

Berthe Morisot, Lady at her Toilette,
The Art Institute of Chicago 1875\

Mary Cassatt, In the Loge, 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1878