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Page 1: Impressionist Portraits

Impressionist Portraits

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How did it happen?

In the 1870’s, painters began painting in the

Impressionist style as a reaction against the strict

style of the Realists. Impressionist painters were

interested in the changing qualities of light and

wanted to express that in a way that Realism could

not.

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Characteristics of Impressionist paintings:

- Small, thin, yet visible brush strokes

- Open composition, emphasis on the accurate

- Depiction of light in its changing qualities - Ordinary subject matter

- The inclusion of unusual visual angles.

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Claude MonetImpression, Sunrise

1873

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Claude MonetSelf Portrait with a

Beret1886

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Claude MonetPortrait of Jean

Monet1880

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BertheMorisot

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Berthe MorisotSelf Portrait

1885

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Berthe MorisotSelf Portrait with

Julie1887

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Camille PissarroPortrait of Felix

Pissarro1881

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Guy RosePortrait of an

Algerian1900

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Guy Rose

My Sister Maude

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Guy RoseThe Model

1919