L.A. Unit 1: Seeing Like a Writer
Impressionism
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The Blue Pond by Luis Graner Arrufi
GRANER, y Arrufi, Luis
Spanish, 1867-1922
Born in Barcelona, Spain, Luis Graner arrived in the United States in 1910 and was in New Orleans intermittently from 1914 to 1922. Reportedly he painted many scenes of rural Louisiana, which became some of his most signature work..He also was active in California where he painted scenes of La Jolla dated 1910. He opened a studio in New York City after he left New Orleans. By the time he arrived in the United States, he had an established international reputation for portraits, genre subj
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Mother and Child by Mary Cassatt
Mary (Stevenson) Cassatt
American, 1844-1926
Artist. Born on May 22, 1844, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. Mary Cassatt was one of the leading artists in the Impressionist movement of the later part of the 1800s…. She is best known for her luminous portraits of women and children, such as The Morning Toilet (1886) and Mother Feeding a Child (1898). A less recognized legacy was her influence in getting many Americans to acquire Impressionist and other contemporary French paintings now in U.S. museums.
from: biography.com
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Play in the Surf by Edward Henry Potthast
Edward Henry Potthast
American, 1857-1927
Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927 ) was an American Impressionist painter. In 1886 he departed for Paris, where he studied with Fernand Cormon. In 1895 he relocated to New York City and remained there until his death in 1927.
from: artst.org
What all of these artists have in common is they exemplify a period in art called Impessionism in which artist’s began rebelling against traditional norms and began to explore the idea of painting with light, moods, and movement.
Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism
Radicals in their time, early Impressionists broke the rules of academic painting. They began by giving colours, freely brushed, primacy over line, drawing inspiration from the work of painters such as Eugene Delacroix. They took the act of painting out of the studio and into the world.
