The Impressionist Artists

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This paper examines how the main theme of the impressionist artists was the reflection of personal impression on canvas. The author reviews the work of impressionists Claudet Monet, Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissaro and Berthe Morrisot. It concludes that the contribution of Impressionists is invaluable because they set new standards of fine art, which gave birth to other categories of art such as post-impressionism, symbolism, primitivism and modern.

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"The father of the Impressionist movement is considered to be Claudet Monet (1840-1926), French painter of the late nineteenth century, who developed new technique when painting French landscapes on open-air. Monet came to the conclusion that a painting "made on the open air, has a unique freshness and liveliness, which is unable to be achieved when working in the workshop", where the theme is preplanned. According to Monet, painter had to change the way he perceives reality by fragmenting it into naive and primitive images, which formed the core of the aesthetic impression. Monet set a new task to the art, to reflect a momentary impression, to picture every moment and every element of objects motion in order to make painting alive."

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