1. Impressionist: Watershed of traditional art and modern art
Impressionist painting is the second half of the 19th century, was born in France, the
representative of Monet, Manet, Degas, Pissarro, Renoir and Cezanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin.
"Sunrise." impressionist painting grow in the soil of realism, but their main interest is in
accurately and objectively describe the feeling of individual confronts.Impressionist painters for
instant visual perception, the attention to color, atmosphere, strokes, more than the attention to
social history, religion, ethics, it is in this respect, they with previous European painters on the
different artistic path.Their works had emerged have been accustomed to reproach classical
painting in the form of the audience, in the first impressionist painting exhibition in 1874, monet's
"impression, sunrise." a draw criticism, from then on, "impressionism" and "impressionism" as a
proper noun to name a group of artists like monet's work.Looked from the development of
European painting process, it is in the impressionist painter, shining sun and subtle shadow was
introduced into the picture, painting become fresh and bright and beautiful life.The peak of the
effort , in the era of impressionist artist pursuit true, and then began to fall.
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