Impressionism and Modernism

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This paper looks at the history and origins of Impressionism and Modernism. It looks at some of the by-products of these art forms, and the techniques employed by well-known Impressionists and Modernists. The paper also describes and analyzes the paintings of some of the most famous impressionist and modernist artists.

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"Although the term "Impressionism" was first used in 1874 by a journalist ridiculing a landscape by Monet, the bitter controversy that raged for twenty years over the merits of Impressionism actually began eleven years earlier, in 1863, at the Salon des Refuses, an exhibition held to accommodate the exceptionally numerous works rejected by the jury for the salon that year. It was here that Manet shocked the viewing public with his Dejeuner sur l'Herbe ("Luncheon on the Grass"), which portrays a nude woman and two clothed men seated in the woods. Thus, Manet's refusal to idealize the figures or make the event seem less contemporary offended many critics and art dealers, for with this painting, Manet had drawn away the curtain of classical illusion and brought the nude up-to-date."

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