Techniques of the ImpressionistsWorks by Manet, Degas, Renoir, Monet, and other artists are examined to reveal the elements of composition, light, color, form, and visual effects that mark the impressionist movement in painting. |
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academic Actual size detail Alfred Sisley alizarin lake appears applied background Berthe Morisot brush brushmarks brushstrokes brushwork Caillebotte Camille Pissarro Cézanne Cézanne's chiaroscuro chrome green chrome yellow cobalt blue cobalt violet composition contours contrasts cool Courbet create Degas depicted Derain dragged drawing Durand-Ruel early ébauche Ecole Ecole des Beaux-Arts effects executed exhibition fall of light figures foreground French Gauguin Gogh Gustave Caillebotte handling hues impasted Impressionism Impressionist Impressionist group show lead white light and shade luminosity Manet Matisse method mixed mixture Monet Morisot nature Neo-Impressionists nineteenth century oil painting outdoor paint layer paint surface painter pale palette Paris pastel pictorial space picture surface pigment Pissarro portrait primed canvas Prussian blue reflected Renoir reworking Salon scumbled Seurat shadows Signac Sisley slurred strokes studies style technique thin thinly tints tonal tone touches traditional transparent ultramarine varnish vermilion viridian viridian green warm Wet-in-wet yellow ochre