Elementary Academics

1. Impressionism

2. Have you seen these paintings?

3. Or these?

4. They are from the
“Impressionist” Era.
• Originated in France in 1870’s
• Characterized by small brush strokes
• Reproduced artists’ visual “impression”

5. Major “Impressionistic” Artists
• Monet
• Degas
• Renoir
• Pissarro
• Cassatt

6. Monet was the leader of the
group.
• Painted still lifes in different lighting
• Had a manservant clean the lily pads of soot
in the mornings
• Painted many times the same subject or
view

7. Monet painted…
Water lilies…

8. hut-shaped haystacks…

9. Rouen Cathedral

10. Mary Cassatt was an
impressionist.
• She was an American.
• She painted mothers and children.
• She had no children of her own.
• She was friends with Degas, who also is an
impressionist.

11. Mary Cassatt painted…
Children on the Beach

12. naturalistic poses…

13. mothers and children…

14. Edgar Degas
• Considered the master of drawing the
human figure in motion
• Known for paintings of ballerinas
• Drew scenes of horse races and race tracks

15. Degas is famous for…
Dancers

16. Horses

17. Cotton Exchange at
New Orleans

18. Impressionism
• Each work is based on immediate visual
impression of a scene.
• Each work is study of light and atmosphere
and
• play of reflections and color.