What makes impressionism,
“impressionism”?
Impressionism…
• uses VIBRANT colors
• favored CONTEMPORARY SCENES OF URBAN LIFE
• paints a scene AS IF THE VIEWER CAUGHT THE
SCENE “at a glimpse”
• makes use of SHORT BRUSH STROKES
• Still favored realistic proportions and lighting
Monet
Renoir
Degas
Post-impressionism…
• “exaggerated form”
• favored RURAL SCENES & EVERYDAY OBJECTS
• paints a scene AS IF THE VIEWER CAUGHT THE
SCENE “at a glimpse”
• makes use of THICK BRUSH STROKES
• Still favored realistic proportions and lighting
Van Gogh
Cezanne
Who were the Filipino
impressionists of their time?
Juan Luna
“Spoliarium”
Fernando Amorsolo
Post-impressionism
“exaggerated form”
favored RURAL SCENES &
EVERYDAY OBJECTS
paints a scene as if the viewer
saw it "at a glimpse”
makes use of THICK BRUSH
STROKES
Still favored realistic proportions
and lighting
Impressionism
uses VIBRANT colors
favored CONTEMPORARY
SCENES OF URBAN LIFE
paints a scene as if a viewer saw
it“at a glimpse”
makes use of SHORT BRUSH
STROKES
Still favored realistic
proportions and lighting
Expressionism
• Brought new standards to modern art
• Used Swirling, swaying & exaggeratedly
executed brush strokes
• Used bold colors
(1905-1925)
“Unlike Impressionism, its goals were not to
reproduce the impression suggested by the
surrounding world, but to strongly impose the
artist’s own sensibility to the world’s
representation. ”
“The Scream”
By Edvard Munch
Tempera, Oil paint, Paste
(1893)
“Anxiety”
By Edvard Munch
Tempera, Oil paint, Paste
(1893)
“Blue Horses”
By Franz Marc
(1911)
“The Yellow Cow”
By Franz Marc
(1911)

Impressionism & Expressionism