Impressionism

3 Characteristics:

• artist captures image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it
• a lot of color
• artists like to capture their images without details but with bold color

Claude Monet

Magpie, 1868-69                                  La Grenouillère, 1869

Mary Cassatt

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878               The Lamp, 1891

Edgar Degas

Place de la Concorde, 1875                           Les repasseuses (Women Ironing), 1884