Aspects of Landscape Painting Composition Horizon line Focal point Balance Foreground Middle ground Background Berthe Morisot, Landscape of La Creuse (1882)
Art Appreciation The Natural World Color, composition & light …
By the early 1800s artists began to experiment with color and how colors change according to those beside them. Claude Monet: Regatta at Argenteuil (1827)
Attention to color Claude Monet, Branch of Orange Bearing Fruit (1884)
The French Impressionists Claude Monet Pierre Auguste Renoir Alfred Sisley Camille Pissarro Paul Cezanne Berthe Morisot Edgar Degas
En pleine aire In the open air…. Claude Monet: Les Paves de Chailly (1865)
Bold close-ups Claude Monet: On the Beach at Trouville (1870)
The Floating Studio Edouard Manet: Monet in his Floating Studio (1874) Monet: La Grenouillere, 1869
Japanese Influence: composition and mood Ando Hiroshige: Tsukauda Beneath a Full Moon (1830s) Claude Monet: Red Boats (1875)
Elements of Photography Edgar Degas: Four Dancers (1899)
Alfred Sisley: Flood at Port-Marly (1876) Aspects of modern life
Innovation and scandal: The Birth of Impressionism Claude Monet: Le soleil levant (1873) Impression, Sunrise
The 1874 exposition The term “Impressionism” is coined…
Beyond Impressionism Vincent Van Gogh: Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun (1890)