In 2019, Sotheby’s sold Monet’s Meules for $110.8 million, setting a new record for the artist the same year saw retrospectives at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay of works by Berthe Morisot, a leading female Impressionist. Today, works by Impressionist artists retain incredible value in the market, founded on unbridled interest among private collectors and the public institutions.

French writers and poets, in turn, represented Impressionism with syntactic variation and fragmentary prose. Musical Impressionism involved creating the impression of atmosphere or mood and became popular in France in the late 19th century. The ethos of Impressionism made an enduring impact on music and literature as well as the visual arts. Widely regarded as Monet’s single most famous painting, Impression, Sunrise was completed during the late nineteenth century in 1872. The layers were rarely transparent – instead, the application added opaque dimensions of color.Ĭamille Pissarro, PRAIRIE AVEC VACHES, BRUME, SOLEIL COUCHANT À ÉRAGNY, 1891. While Impression, Sunrise and Monet’s artistic technique fell under harsh criticism at their outset, Monet’s masterpiece gave birth to a new movement and created a revolution in the world of art.

The artists applied new layers of paint over layers that were still wet, which softened the forms and supplied a unique intermingling of colors. The paints themselves were also brighter than those used in previous eras, due to the invention of synthetic pigments. Instead of using black and gray paint to depict shadows, the painters paired complementary colors. The artists used short, visible dabs of paint to capture the overall impression of their subject, choosing not to pay particular attention to the fine details. Rather than be confined to a studio, many Impressionists preferred to paint en plein air in the countryside outside of Paris this approach required the artists to work quickly but allowed them to capture the fleeting impressions of light. There was no one unifying Impressionist style, but the artists associated with Impressionism did share similar modern approaches to painting. Characteristics and Style of Impressionism

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