Impressionism And Photography

The nineteen century will be remembered in history as a century of the great inventions and innovations that have change the planet earth. During this period the great industrial revolution, have seen the transformation of machinery been power driven by steam vapor, and subsequently superseding the human element of manual and animal force from the previous centuries. Hence power driven force was started generated by, the burning of coal or fossil fuel and, water that was turned to steam vapor that passed throw narrow tubes to produce a pressured steam force, capable to turn turbines and generators to produce anything from electricity to steam driven ships, and all movable machinery used in industry. Half way through this century other invention was created that left a mark of the visual appearance of artistic paintings, was the invention of Photography.

Across the English channel two inventors where unknowingly, trying to create chemically a permanently picture or visual, that was first exposed by means of a camera oskura and using light sensitive chemicals gelatine on glass and exposing through a pinpoint lens, thus recording an appearance’s that is situated in from of this camera. After the glass film is developed and a negative image of the exposed visual is obtained, a positive version is created by means of exposing the glass negative on to a presensitized photo paper and thus a facsimilia photographic copy would be produced,. However, not all people were happy with this great invention as conservative French artist where the first to object that Photography will threaten their live hoods as now fewer commissions from people to depict their portraits will be received. As a matter of fact Religious commissions and family portraits, were a main source for the artist income. Its beyond douth that painting was the only means to permeant record images during the preceding centuries of your dearest ones. However, during that period France was passing from great political revolution that was going to change the whole spectrum of how people including artists, lived and worked.

Hence a new movement of a small group of French artists were uprising as an alternative to the conservative Salon de Paris exhibition. These artists wanted to create a new style of modern painting to confront both the invention of Photograph and also moving away from the previous art period. An artist that was all against the conservative art period was Oscar-Claude Monet (1840-1926). Monet was disillusioned with the traditional art taught at art schools, and in 1862 Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken colour and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism. (i) Soon after the birth of the Impressionist movement, a friend of Monet, poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), was entrusted to write an art Manifesto for the movement, The aim for the movement, was to form a guild, of artistic trades to join force and thus became a force, besides giving a direction on how Impressionism painting should be performed. . The term 'Impressionism' is derived from the title of his Monet, gave to his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874, in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates that were called, Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers) as an alternative to the Salon de Paris. (2) The Salon de Paris, was the main exhibition hall of the French art academy ran by art conservatives, and it was an honor to be chosen and expose your painting there. Thus Monet, became the founder of this artistic movement that became known as the Impressionist. In the Impressionist manifesto there was specify written the following painting techniques to guide the artist in this new style of impressionist painting. Some of the main guidelines were as follows. (3). (*)Subjects chosen for painting usually pertain to what the artist actually saw in daily life, such as urban scenes of Paris and its environs. (*)When painting landscapes, the artists usually works outdoor rather in the studio. (*)Colors were applied with as little mixing as possible.

The intend effect was to provide a vibrant experience for the viewer. (*)Paint was applied in short, thick strokes, usually on a sketch- like form. The essence of a subject was to capture rather than the details. (*)Darker shades of colour were made of mixing with complementary colors. Black pigment was used only as a colour in its own right. (*)Instead of waiting for successive application to dry, wet paint was painted onto wet paint in order to produce softer edges and better intermingling of colour, besides impressionist paint on thin film glazes were not used. . (*)Impressionists artists emphasized the shadow and play of light on an object and were concerned about the colour of the reflected object, besides empathizing the shadows on the ground showing reflections of the blue shy on the surfaces. (*)Paint was applied in short, thick strokes, usually on a shetck- like form.

The essence of a subject was to capture rather the details. (*)Darker shades of colour were made of mixing with complementary colors. Black pigment was used only as a colour in its own right. (*)Instead of waiting for successive application to dry, wet paint was painted onto wet paint in order to produce softer edges and better intermingling of colour, besides impressionist paint on thin film glazes were not used. . (*)Impressionists artists emphasized the shadow and play of light on an object and were concerned about the colour of the reflected object, besides empathizing the shadows on the ground showing reflections of the blue shy on the surfaces. At the bringing of the twenty century Impressionism was superseded after three decades by post-Impressionism. Most of the painters that embraced impressionism became famous and there work is still vibrant till the present days, besides they are priceless. As a matter of fact works by Monet and his folowers are in demand for corporate collections as an investment.