Monday Morning Museum: Impressionism

Impressionism – Centered in France from the 1860s to 1880s

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists. Their independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s, in spite of harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. – Wikipedia.org

In addition to Frédéric Bazille, (see art example below), other Impressionist artists are Oscar Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet and Mary Stevenson Cassatt.

Aigues-Mortes, 1867 by Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870)

Last Monday’s Art – The Hudson River School
Next Monday’s Art – Mannerism

Top of post: “Impressionism” graphic created by Adrean Darce Brent
Below: “Monday Morning Museum” logo created by Adrean Darce Brent

Monday Morning Museum: Oscar Claude Monet

Oscar Claude Monet – Saturday 14 November 1840 Paris, France to Sunday 5 December 1926 Giverny, France

French Impressionist Painter

Monet is my favorite Impressionist painter and I love his place in Giverny!


This is one of the eight tableaux from Monet’s Les Nymphéas installation at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris and it is the one I really like – Le Matin Clair Aux Saules




Last Monday’s Artist – Edward J. Steichen
Next Monday’s Artist – Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin


Images:
Left: Vétheuil Dans Le Brouillard, 1879 from the website upload.wikimedia.org
Center: Bridge Over A Pond Of Water Lilies, 1899 from the website metmuseum.org
Right: Weeping Willow, 1918-1919 from the website upload.wikimedia.org
Below: “Monday Morning Museum” logo created by Adrean Darce Brent