Assignment

For the first assignment, you need to do the following:

Research Impressionsist art. Find an artist you would like to know more about. Do a one page history on the artist, and find some of the artist's work on the internet. You may post either the picture, or links to sites with the artist's work, or a video (youtube). This will be due next week. You will have 5 minutes to show the class what you have found. The rubrics for grading criteria will be handed out in class.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Mahalo,

Mr. Walton

Monet

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari.

Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. The emergence of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous movements in other media which became known as Impressionist music and Impressionist literature.

Impressionism also describes art created in this style, but outside of the late 19th century time period.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism)

Welcome to Art! It's sooooo Impressive!

This semester, we will be focusing on the Impressionist art style. This blog is designed to get you acquainted and comfortable with not only the style, but the artists that made this style so popular in the 19th century. We will examine several artists, their works, and their stories. By understanding the artist, we will better understand, and appreciate their works.

So, sit back, relax, and ENJOY THE ART!

Mr. Walton