Here are the answers to the questions: 1. The term impressionism originated from the title of Claude Monet's painting Impression, Sunrise. It referred to the fleeting or momentary impression of an image rather than a precise rendering. 2. This art movement began in France in the second half of the 19th century, from around 1872 to the mid-1880s. 3. Delacroix's painting technique in The Barque of Dante, of using distinct unmixed colors placed side by side that blended in the eye of the viewer, profoundly influenced the impressionists' style of suggesting form and color through distinct brushstrokes rather than blending or shading. 4. Three distinguishing characteristics

2. MODERN
ART

3. In all of human history,
art has mirrored life in
the community, society,
and the world in all its
colors, lines, shapes,
and forms.

4. The 20th century saw a boom
in the interchange of ideas,
beliefs, values, and lifestyles
that continues to bring the
citizens of the world closer
together.

5. TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS
•The world zoomed into the
Electronic Age in the mid-1900s,
then into the present
Cyberspace Age.

6. TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS
IN JUST OVER 100YEARS:
•Humans went from hand-cranked
telephones to hands-free mobile
phones
•From the first automobiles to inter-
planetary space vehicles

7. TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS
IN JUST OVER 100YEARS:
•From local radio broadcasting to
international news coverage via
satellite
•From vaccinations against polio and
small pox to laser surgery

8. SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND
ENVIRONMENTALCHANGES
•20th century also suffered through two
WorldWars, and several regional wars
in Asia, Africa and the Middle East
•There was the Great Depression of the
1930s
•the Asian economic crisis of the 1990s

9. SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND
ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES
•Considered the modern-day plague,
AIDS has afflicted millions the world
over
•Millions more continue to live in
hunger, disease, and poverty

10. SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND
ENVIRONMENTALCHANGES
•Environmental destruction has
also become a major concern

11. EFFECTS ONTHE WORLD OF ART
• Impressionists and
expressionists conveyed their
ideas and feelings in bold,
innovative ways.These were
the exciting precursors of the
modern art of the 21st century.

12. IMPRESSIONISM:
ORIGINS OFTHE
MOVEMENT

13. IMPRESSIONISM
•An art movement that emerged in
the second half of the 19th century
among a group of Paris-based
artists
•Its duration was less than 20 years
from 1872 to the mid-1880s

14. IMPRESSIONISM
•Had a tremendous impact and
influence on different painting
styles, even the artistic styles
and movements of today

15. IMPRESSIONISM
•The name impressionism was
coined from the title of a work
by French painter Claude
Monet, Impression, soleil levant
(in English, Impression, Sunrise)

18. IMPRESSIONISM
•Emphasizes the viewer’s
momentary “impression” of an
image

19. IMPRESSIONISM
•Paintings are not intended to
be clear or precise, but more
like a fleeting fragment of
reality caught on canvas

20. THE INFLUENCE OF
DELACROIX
•Delacroix was greatly admired and
emulated for his use of expressive
brushstrokes, his emphasis on
movement rather than on clarity of
form, and most of all his study of the
optical effects of color

21. THE INFLUENCE OF
DELACROIX
•Delacroix’s painting,The Barque of
Dante, contained a then revolutionary
technique that would profoundly
influence the coming impressionist
movement

23. THE INFLUENCE OF
DELACROIX
•The painting is loosely based on a
fictional scene from Dante’s Inferno,
showing Dante and the poetVirgil
crossing hell’s River Styx, while
tormented souls struggle to climb
aboard their boat

24. THE INFLUENCE OF
DELACROIX
•When studied closely, it is seen that
four different, unmixed pigments—
yellow, green, red, and white—create
the image of each drop and its shadow

26. THE INFLUENCE OF
DELACROIX
•The distinct colors merge in the eye of
the viewer to appear monochromatic
(single-colored) or, in this case of water
droplets, colorless. In short, an
impression is formed.

27. Putting this and similar
principles into wider
practice, future painters
would carry French art into
one of its richest periods:
IMPRESSIONISM

28. IMPRESSIONISM:
A BREAK FROM
PAST PAINTING
TRADITIONS

29. Color and Light
•Impressionists painted with
freely brushed colors that
conveyed more of a visual effect
than a detailed rendering of the
subject

30. Color and Light
•Impressionists used short
“broken” strokes that were
intentionally made visible to the
viewer

31. Color and Light
•Impressionists often placed
pure unmixed colors side by
side, rather than blended
smoothly or shaded

32. Color and Light
•The result was a feeling of
energy and intensity, as the
colors appeared to shift and
move—again, just as they do in
reality

33. “Everyday” Subjects
•Impressionists ventured into
capturing scenes of life around
them, household objects,
landscapes and seascapes,
houses, cafes, and buildings

34. “Everyday” Subjects
•Impressionists presented
ordinary people seemingly
caught off-guard doing
everyday tasks, at work or at
leisure, or doing nothing at all

35. “Everyday” Subjects
•Paintings were not made to look
beautiful or lifelike, as body parts
could be distorted and facial
features merely suggested by a few
strokes of the brush

36. Painting Outdoors
•Impressionists found that they
could best capture the ever-
changing effects of light on color
by painting outdoors in natural
light

37. Open Composition
•Impressionists painting also
moved away from the formal,
structured approach to placing
and positioning their subjects

38. Open Composition
•Impressionists experimented with
unusual visual angles, sizes of
objects that appeared out of
proportion, off-center placement,
and empty spaces on the canvas.

39. THE
INFLUENCE OF
PHOTOGRAPHY

40. PHOTOGRAPHY
•As it gained popularity, photography
inspired impressionists to capture
fleeting moments of action, whether in
landscapes or in the day-to-day lives of
people

41. PHOTOGRAPHY
•Camera snapshots provided objective,
true-to-life images
•The artists were able to express their
personal perceptions rather than
creating exact representations

42. PHOTOGRAPHY
•They also had the advantage of
manipulating color, which photography
at that time still lacked

43. ACTIVITY
1

44. 1. How did the term
impressionism originate?
What did it mean?
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45. 2. In what country did this art
movement begin, and in what
period of history?
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46. 3.What was the significance of
the painting technique used by
Delacroix in the development of
the impressionist style?
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47. 4.What characteristics distinguished
impressionism from the art movements
of the earlier centuries? Cite and briefly
describe at least three of these
characteristics.
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48. 5. How was the impressionist
style influenced by the early
stages of photography?
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