WeeK 1:Introduction to ImpressionismArtists & terms this week:

• The Salon (“The Academy”)• Claude Monet• Alla prima• En plein air• Louis Leroy• Lilla Cabot Perry• Auguste Renoir• Edgar Degas• Charles Gleyre• Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille• Café Guerbois, Montmarte

The Impressionists:• Artistic rebels who challenged The

Academy BUT ALSO• Artists who were a product of their

time– social & political changes in Paris– changes in the art market– new scientific improvements – Influence from earlier artists

Monet, Sunrise, An Impression, 1872

Monet, Haystack Series, 1891-1892

Monet, Rouen Cathedral Series, 1893-1894

Cabot Perry, Lady with a

Bowl of Violets, 1910

Renoir, La Moulin de la Galette, 1876

Degas, Place de la Concorde, 1875

Gleyre, Pentheus Pursued by Maenads, 1864

Monet, Sunrise, An Impression, 1872

The Impressionist Style• A looser, obvious brushstroke• Increased awareness of canvas

surface • Increased abstraction • Destruction of spatial illusion• Change in subject matter