What does "Impressionism" mean? Why is it called this name?

Impressionism was born in France in the late19th century, and it is an epoch-making art school in the history of western painting. Representative painters Manet, Renoir and Monet all regard "light" and "color" as the main purpose of painting. They advocate going out of the studio, depicting the natural scenery, and grasping the instant impression with quick methods, so that the picture presents a fresh and vivid feeling. Named after Monet's Impression of Sunrise.

What is impressionism?

Impressionist painting is an epoch-making art school in the history of western painting. From 65438 to 2009, it reached its peak in the 1970s and 1980s. Its influence spread all over Europe and gradually spread to all parts of the world, but it achieved the most brilliant artistic achievements in France. /kloc-From the second half of the 9th century to the beginning of the 20th century, a large number of impressionist artists emerged in France, who created a large number of classic works that are still familiar to people. Apart from the famous paintings exhibited in China this time, Manet's Lunch on the Grass, Monet's Impression of Sunrise and Van Gogh's Sunflower are even more famous paintings.

Impressionist painters walked out of the studio and went deep into Yuan Ye, the countryside and the streets to sketch, striving to truly depict nature. Borrowing the latest optical theory that "the color of an object is produced by the illumination of light, and the inherent color of the object does not exist", impressionist painters believe that the scenery has different colors under different lighting conditions, and their mission is to faithfully describe the "truth" of the scenery under changing lighting conditions. Isn't this instantaneous truth just a fleeting "impression"? Impressionist painters recorded this "moment" on canvas forever.

Impressionism: Discovering Color in Outdoor Sunlight

Judging from the grand opening of the exhibition and the attention of the media, French impressionist painting is very popular in China. Since the beginning of the 20th century, domestic scholars have written articles to introduce and evaluate Impressionist painting, and the word Impressionism has also appeared in various articles. They analyzed the characteristics of Impressionist art from different angles, and Impressionist painting had a far-reaching impact on China's modern oil painting. Some scholars and artists compare Impressionist art with China art, and think that the aesthetic tendency of Impressionism has something in common with China traditional painting. Xu Beihong attached great importance to the sketches of impressionist painters, affirmed the use of color by impressionist painters, and said that their paintings were verve-oriented. Lin Fengmian affirmed the contribution of Impressionism from the innovative way of painting. Huang realized that impressionist landscape painting and China landscape painting have something in common.

The most important achievement of impressionist painting is to discover and express the colors under outdoor natural light and capture the instantaneous changes of nature. In order to capture the "impression" of the moment, impressionist painting tends to be more casual in composition, striving to highlight the contingency of the picture, increase the vividness of the picture and the atmosphere of life, and highlight the expression of the inner subjective image. It is necessary to remind the audience, especially the small audience, that it is best not to be too close to the painting when appreciating impressionist painting. If you look closely, you will feel that the colors are fragmented and not mixed.

Impressionism: Causing Great Changes in World Art Forms

Impressionism is an important stage in the transition of European art from realism to modernism in the middle of19th century. Impressionist painters entered the French painting world with an innovative attitude, pointing to Chen Xiangyin's classical painting school and artificial romanticism. Impressionist painters absorbed the nutrition of realistic painting and began to study and express outdoor natural light in their paintings. According to the latest optical theory at that time, "the color of an object is produced by the irradiation of light, and the inherent color of the object does not exist." Impressionist painters believe that the scenery has different colors under different lighting conditions. Impressionist painters advocated going out of the studio and sketching outdoors, striving to truly depict nature, directly depicting the scenery and daily life under the sun, and abandoning the narrow earthy tones since16th century. The representative painters of Impressionism are Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Sisley and pissarro. After impressionism, Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh all thought that painting should not only imitate the objective world in natural light like impressionism, but should show the painter's subjective feelings about objective things more. This is the famous "post-impressionist" Three Musketeers. Since then, modernist artistic thoughts have emerged one after another, and the great changes in world art forms have begun.

Impressionism: Born in Laughter

1863 "Salon's Unsuccessful Works Exhibition" was held in Paris. Manet exhibited his "Lunch on the Grass" and painted a naked woman and gentlemen having lunch on the grass. This painting was considered indecent and was severely criticized and laughed at. Innovative painters such as Monet, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, pissarro and Cezanne are all willing to form an alliance with Manet. 1in April, 874, an exhibition called "Unknown Artists such as Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers" was held in the studio of photographer Nadal in Capesin Street, Paris. "Crazy, grotesque, disgusting and ugly!" This was condemned by an art critic in Paris, and the exhibition soon became a gossip topic in Paris. The audience not only laughed, but even spat on the canvas. Among them, a small seascape painting by Monet is the most ridiculed. It painted the morning scene of Harvard Harbor with the title of "Impression of Sunrise", and Leroy, a journalist with conservative artistic views, mocked the exhibition with this title.