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

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Monday Morning Museum: Mary Stevenson Cassatt

Mary Stevenson Cassatt – Wednesday 22 May 1844 Alleghany City, Pennsylvania to Monday 14 June 1926 Château de Beaufresne, France

American Impressionist Painter


Although Cassatt is primarily known for portraying women and children in her paintings, this is a landscape from early in her career – Picking Flowers in a Field, circa 1875




Last Monday’s Artist – Gustav Klimt
Next Monday’s Artist – Edgar Degas


Images:
Left: Spring: Margot Standing in a Garden, 1902 from the website sirismm.si.edu
Center: Lilacs in a Window, 1880-1883 from the website metmuseum.org
Right: Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun, 1914 from the website upload.wikimedia.org
Below: “Monday Morning Museum” logo created by Adrean Darce Brent