Impressionism
Impressionism uses Realist content but is
more interested in the form, not the
content.
Strong influence of photography,
Japanese prints, tube paints, interest in
light
, Impression: Sunrise
Monet
, Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in
Sun), 1894. Oil on canvas, 3’ 3
1/4” x 2’ 1 7/8”. Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York
(Theodore M. Davis Collection,
bequest of Theodore M. Davis,
1915).
Impressionism uses Realist content but is
more interested in the form, not the
content.
Strong influence of photography,
Japanese prints, tube paints, interest in
light
, Impression: Sunrise
Monet
, Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in
Sun), 1894. Oil on canvas, 3’ 3
1/4” x 2’ 1 7/8”. Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York
(Theodore M. Davis Collection,
bequest of Theodore M. Davis,
1915).
