Representative of the Impressionist painters

1. Claude Monet

Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926), French painter, Known as the "leader of Impressionism", he is one of the representatives and founders of Impressionism.

Monet is one of the most important painters in France. He promoted most of the theories and practices of Impressionism. Monet was good at experimentation and expression techniques of light and shadow. His most important style is the change in the painting method of shadows and outlines. In Monet's paintings, you cannot see very clear shadows, nor can you see highlighted or flat outlines. The color depiction of light and shadow is the biggest feature of Monet's paintings.

2. Edouard Manet

Edouard Manet (?douard Manet, 1832.01.23 - 1883.04.30) was one of the founders of Impressionism in the 19th century. In 1832 Born in Paris, France.

He never participated in an Impressionist exhibition, but his innovative attitude toward artistic creation deeply influenced emerging painters such as Monet, Cézanne, and Van Gogh, thereby bringing painting into modernism. on the road.

Influenced by Japanese Ukiyo-e and Spanish painting styles, Manet boldly used bright colors and abandoned the middle tones of traditional paintings, liberating paintings from the traditional constraints of pursuing three-dimensional space and moving toward a two-dimensional plane. Creation takes a revolutionary step.

3. Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro (July 10, 1830 - November 13, 1903), France Master of Impressionism, he was born on the island of St. Thomas in the Antilles and died in Paris in 1903.

A year before his death, Gauguin, who was far away in Tahiti, wrote: "He is my teacher." Three years after his death, Cézanne, the "father of modern painting", wrote The catalog of his exhibited works was respectfully signed "Paul Cézanne, student of Pissarro".

4. Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is important to Impressionism painter. Born in Limoges, a small town in Haute-Vienne, France, in 1841, he later moved to Paris with his family. A member of the Impressionist School. Known for his oil paintings, he also makes sculptures and prints.

5. Sisley

Sisley (Alfred Sisley, 1839-1899), French painter. He mainly paints landscapes and has participated in many impressionist painting exhibitions. Early representative works such as "Lumberyard", "Fontainebleau Riverside", "Canal Saint-Martin", etc. show that he has a particularly keen sense of color, his brushwork is brisk and varied, and he is particularly good at using subtle color relationships to express poetic natural scenery.

Due to the influence of Neo-Impressionism in his later period, he mostly used pointillism techniques in his paintings. His works tended to focus on expressing the physical sense of objects, but they lacked inherent poetry. His works also include "Snow at Louveciennes" (see illustration), "The Flood of Marport", "The Boat in the Flood", etc.

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