Articles for tag: Cezanne, Impressionism, Impressionist, Naturalism, Van Gogh

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Influences of Post Impressionism

It seems to me that the Post Impressionism period was a result of the Impressionism period rather than the Romanticism period. The artists of the Post Impressionism period (Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat and Cezanne) continued to utilize the loose brushwork, the purity of highly saturated colors, and the general liberty the Impressionist period had evoked ...

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Starry, Starry Night : Free Coloring Page

Art and music are a very important part of a homeschool curriculum. I always appreciate a quality free resource that I can print from my computer. Here you will find a wonderful resource when teaching about artist Vincent Van Gogh and his masterpiece Starry, Starry Night. Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry, Starry Night (1869) is one ...

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American Women Impressionist Painters

Impressionism began in the mid-1800s in France as an art movement and flourished during the later decades of the 19th century and into the early 20th century in America. The word impressionism is attributed to the title of Claude Monet’s painting, Impression, soleil levant or Impression, Sunrise. The style is readily identified by small visible ...

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Monet House and Gardens: Giverny, France

If I was given a chance to travel anywhere in the world right this second, I would travel without hesitation to Claude Monet’s House and Gardens in Giverny, France. I fell in love with Claude Monet’s impressionism paintings when I was a little girl in grade school. His work speaks to me in ways that ...

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Monet and Cezanne: The Path to Modernism

The Twentieth Century not only marked a new beginning in the social, political and economic world, it was a time of change in the art world as well. With the turn of the century, came new ideas and concepts of how to represent the world around us, moving away from the traditional values and skills ...