AOK The Arts
Innovative or Creative?
IMPRESSIONISTS
MONET DEGAS DEBUSSY AND
TURNER???

 What is an Impressionist?
 What does it take to be innovative?
 Was Monet a rebel or an innovator?
 Does Art have to be realistic to be truthful?
 Should it be truthful?

Photograph of Waterlilies

 Which are more realistic the photo or
Monet’s impressions of waterlilies? How
do you know? Does it matter?
 Write half a page.
 Justify your answer with links to WOK

 Do you prefer Monet’s paintings to a
photograph of a waterlily garden?
 Write one paragraph and justify your
response

 Degas:

 In Pairs compare Degas to Monet
 Which do you prefer and why?
 Which one is more innovative and why?
 How do you know?

 Turner: Waves breaking on a lee shore

 Turner: Snow Storm

 Turner:

 Turner was painting in the late 1700’s
early 1800’s long before the French
impressionists.
 Compared to Monet and Degas, was he a
true innovator? What does it take to create
a new style?

 “There are no such things as individual
works of Art”
 OR
 “Art reveals truth and beauty” To what
extent do you agree? Discuss this in
relation to the WOK