Impressionism did at any rate bring colour more into harmony with the improved lighting of our rooms; yet in every art the sins of the fathers are visited upon their children.
Impressionism was a phase of progressive art of world-wide influence.
From all this it is evident that Impressionismcould not remain the mode of expression for the whole world of the present day.
Impressionism gave landscape painting, which showed signs of being split into specialties, once more a firm basis, a charming field of study.
Impressionism has discovered a whole range of new colour values by careful and intelligent study of the influence of light upon colour, and where formerly we saw ten we now find a hundred.
With this picture--no one can tell why--the definite battles overImpressionism began.
And he who afterwards revelled in the clearest plein-air painting here celebrates the secret wonders of the night, though the influences of Impressionism are here already visible.
The audacities of Impressionism are excluded, because painting which starts from a masterly seizure of total effect would seem too sketchy to English taste, which has been formed by Ruskin.
We have seen what impressionism and the descriptive tic of naturalism have become in the hands of Tovote.
Impressionism in literature is an example of that atavism which we have noticed as the most distinctive feature in the mental life of degenerates.
Among the landscapes here the most important are the two Schofields on wall D, typical of the best and sanest phase of Impressionism in America.
On wall B is a typically joyous canvas by Gaston La Touche, who carries Impressionism into figure work.
Here is an artist who has carried Impressionism to its limit of vibrating light and color.
It is well to study one wall, A perhaps, and then to go to the Redfield and Hassam rooms, and then to the group of Monets, to see the various ways in which Impressionism has spread.
Impressionism has had more effect on the current of art than has any other movement in history.
The thing is full of sunlight and sparkling color; and it strikes a good medium between the old tight painting and that which carries Impressionism too far-both of which extremes can be seen in plenty in this room.
His impressionism of phrase went really deeper than the surface.
In short, impressionism has come to stand for two quite distinct things: one a genuine attempt to articulate an emotion connected with light and atmosphere, the other a scientific theory of colour and light.
In reaction against the tendency of English Impressionism to degenerate into the pleasant but slipshod aestheticism of a Lavery there is the crude Vorticism of Wyndham Lewis and W.
At that period, the literary and artistic school which had produced naturalism and impressionism was growing rapidly old-fashioned.
Impressionism was the logical outgrowth, in another sphere, of the work of these Naturalist writers.
It is quite impossible to trace to Cezanne's essays in Synthetic Impressionism the more severely linear and decorative design of either Bernard or Gauguin.
Gauguin heard of Impressionism and became a devout follower of its theories.
To define Impressionism it is not necessary, as many professional art-critics have done, to enter into long dissertations as to the supremacy of pure colors, nor to see in Constable or Turner the ancestry of the movement.
Impressionism was neither more nor less than the cult of Realism--or to speak better, Naturalism--carried out in painting.
But it is to literature, always the advance guard of the arts, that we must turn to understand what impressionism intended and why it failed.
The first phase in Impressionismwas therefore synthetic and maintained a belief in form.
A very mob of men have taken Impressionism upon themselves, in several forms and under a succession of names, in this our later day.
Because Impressionism with all its extreme--let us hope its ultimate--derivatives is so free, therefore is it doubly bound.
The gallery contains no more triumphant piece of Impressionism than the saucy "Lady in Pink" by the Russian, Nicholas Fechin.
It would be evidently unreasonable to attach to Impressionism all that is ante-academical, and between the two extremes there is room for a crowd of interesting artists.
Impressionism has been made known to them principally by the controversies and by the fruitful consequences of this movement for the illustration and study of contemporary life.
The flourishing of Impressionism coincided, as a matter of fact, with certain scientific labours concerning optics.
Impressionism has, then, hitherto been very badly judged.
Neo-Impressionism believes in obtaining thus a greater exactness than that which results from the individual temperament of the painter who simply relies on his own perception.
Chéret's art is the smile of Impressionism and the best demonstration of the decorative logic of this art.
It seems to us only right to sum up our impartial opinion of Neo-Impressionism by saying that it has lacked cohesion, that Pointillism in particular has led painting into an aimless path.
If he had gone to Paris instead of to Japan, we should have missed the impressionism of his Japanese tales, yet he might have found the artistic solace his aching heart desired.
After the hard-won victories of Impressionism there was bound to ensue a reaction.
Impressionism has served its purpose; it was too personal in the case of Claude Monet to be successfully practised by every one.
With him impressionism achieves a perfect musical form.
He established a style irrefragably, made musical impressionism as legitimate a thing as any of the great styles.
His impressionism was somewhat modified; he offered his palette less frequently to the public; he now and then permitted a black object to appear in his pictures; his purples and greens were less aggressive.
What Martin may have gotten, during his stay in Europe, which is called impressionism is, it must be said, a more aristocratic type of impressionism than issued from the Monet followers.
Impressionism will be found to have had a far greater value as a suggestive influence than as a creative one.
One feels that after a Duesseldorf blackness which permeates his earlier work his conversion to impressionism was as fortunate as it was sincere.
That is why we find Cézanne working incessantly to create an art which would achieve a union of impressionism and an art like the Louvre, as he is said to have characterized it for himself.
There was far more hope for a possible great art to come out of Van Gogh, who, in his brief seven years had experimented with every aspect of impressionism that had then been divulged.
Davies having skipped over the direct influence of impressionism by reason of their attachment to Renaissance ideas; having joined themselves by conviction in perhaps slight degrees to aspects of modern painting.
With the work of Theodore Robinson, there comes a wide divergence of feeling that is perhaps a greater comprehension of the principles of impressionism as applied to the realities involved in the academic principle.
He holds his place as a realist with hardly more than a realist's conception, subjoined to a really pleasing appreciation of the principles of impressionism as imbibed by him from the source direct.
It is a far cry from these to the liberality that inspired the new impressionism of "Woodland Sketches" (op.
In the lyrics in opus 56 and opus 58 MacDowell has turned song to the unusual purposes of a landscape impressionism of places and moods rather than people.
He wanted to make of Impressionism "quelque chose de solide et de durable comme l'art des Musées.
Cézanne is the full-stop between impressionism and the contemporary movement.
But it was in the later years of that century that Impressionism became self-conscious and pompous enough to array itself in a theory.
The long struggle of impressionism against academism has now entered upon its last phase: the return to the French tradition, to national affiliation in opposition to the Roman neo-classicism.
Such a man dominates impressionism as much as he does academism.
Gates onImpressionism and Appreciation,<1> that the lamb had assimilated the lion.
The word impressionism is rather difficult to explain.
True critical yeoman's work, for to preach impressionism twenty-five years ago in London was to court a rumpus.
Zola patterned after it in the prodigious Rougon-Macquart series; Daudet found therein the impressionismof his Sapho anticipated; Maupassant and Huysmans delved patiently and practised characteristic variations.
Impressionism is the art that surveys the field and determines which of the shapes and tones are of chief importance to the interested eye, enforces these, and sacrifices the rest.
In England the ideas connected with the word Impressionism have been refracted through the circumstances of the British schools.
An admirable exposition of Impressionismin this sense is R.
The significance of Impressionism is alleged by its advocates to be of such considerable import that in the public interest they should have brought forward the most cogent arguments for its support.
Impressionism is not a spurious form of art, but seeing that its spurious claims were widely accepted, with substantial results, there soon appeared innumerable other forms inferior to it.
It has been frequently said that these masters were the first of impressionists, but the connection between their work and Impressionism is hard to find.
The evil of Impressionism does not lie in the presentation of colour harmonies as beautiful things, for they are unquestionably pleasing, though the beauty is purely sensorial and of an ephemeral character.
Another baneful result of Impressionismis the attempt to raise landscape to a higher level in art than that to which it is properly entitled.
The varied interpretations of Impressionismare referred to elsewhere (see page ).
In his second manner his affinities to Claude Monet andimpressionism are more marked.
Sinister and disquieting that last phrase, and for those who see in impressionism the decadence of painting (because of the predominance given to the parts over the whole) it is a phrase prophetic.
The title of impressionism has been a misleading one.
As for Menzel, it would be well here to correct the notion bandied about town that he discovered impressionism before the French.
Or the Sea Piece in the James Orrock collection--a welter of crosshatchings in variegated hues wherein any school of impressionism from Watteau's Embarkment to Monet's latest manner or the pointillisme of Signac and Seurat may be recognised.
Taine it was who voiced the philosophy of Impressionism when he announced in his Philosophie de l'Art that the principal personage in a picture is the light in which all things are plunged.
However, it must not be forgotten that modern impressionism is only a new technique, a new method of execution--we say new, though that is not exactly the case.
Impressionism has actually elevated genre painting to the position occupied by those vast, empty, pompous, frigid, smoky, classic pieces of the early nineteenth century.
We know that the spectral palette is a mild delusion and sometimes a dangerous snare, that impressionism is in the remotest analysis but a new convention supplanting an old.
Mauclair has said of Van Gogh that he "left to the world some violent and strange works, in which Impressionism appears to have reached the limit of its audacity.
It is more technical than personal, and while it was lucky to have such an exponent as Claude Monet, there is every reason to believe that Monet's impressionism is largely the result of a peculiar penetrating vision.
In Turner, at the National Gallery, you may find the principles of impressionism carried to extravagant lengths, and years before Monet.
It has been called impressionistic; Velasquez has been claimed as the father of impressionism as Stendhal was hailed by Zola as the literary progenitor of naturalism.
Because Impressionism is so free, therefore is it doubly bound.
A very mob of men have taken Impressionism upon themselves in this our later day.
He was impressionist long before Impressionism arrived.
I said he had been impressionist, when he liked, for forty years before Impressionism was born in modern art.
Impressionism was born in painting, poetry, sculpture and music.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impressionism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
