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This 5 page paper answers several questions about Impressionism and Impressionist painters. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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years. This paper answers a few questions about Impressionism and some of its artists. Discussion We begin with the last Impressionist group show, and why the group broke up. Impressionism
was exactly that: the painters wanted to convey the "impression" of what they saw from moment to moment-this is why Monet, for instance, returned and painted the same scene again
and again, watching as the light changed (Shafa, 2007). The light changed constantly, so that the gardens, or fields, or whatever he was watching, changed as well. But this was
a most unorthodox way of painting, and put the Impressionists at odds with the so-called Realists, and with the public, who were not sure about these works, which resembled unfinished
"sketches" more than polished artworks (Shafa, 2007). The Impressionists were realists in the sense that "they remained true to their sensations of the object, although they ignored many of the
old conventions for representing the object out there" (Shafa, 2007). Truth for these artists was to be found in their own "personal and subjective" reactions to what they saw, not
in reproducing things exactly (Shafa, 2007). As the artists became more interested in representing their subjective impressions of the object, concern for a realistic representation faded (Shafa, 2007). The Impressionists
became concerned with the "independent expression of the individual," so that reality became whatever the artist saw (Shafa, 2007). Finally, the meaning of "realism" was transformed into "subjective realism, and
the subjectivity of modern art was born" (Shafa, 2007). We must remember that the Impressionist technique, while much freer than other types of painting, still had certain specific characteristics: they
used short, thick strokes to give their works a "sketchy" look and they "left brush strokes on the canvas" for instance (Evans, 2005). But even as the painters we think
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