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Today, Impressionist paintings are beloved worldwide. Millions flock to museums to admire Monet’s water lilies and Degas’ graceful dancers. But when Impressionism first appeared in the 1870s, it was ridiculed, rejected, and considered a scandal. In this video, we’ll explore what Impressionism really is and why it broke centuries of artistic tradition to change art forever.
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hi this is Anita with Five Minutes with
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Art Today we're going to talk a little
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bit about one of the most famous art
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movements around is impressionism and
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why is impressionism such an important
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art movement well first of all let's
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talk about what is impressionism
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Impressionism is a style of painting
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that emerged in France in the 1860s
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and 1870s It was defined by visible
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brush strokes light focus color everyday
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subjects outdoor settings which is you
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know a planer uh painting it was called
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So it wasn't realistic at all It was
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more you know type of artwork which in
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some ways can almost be a little bit
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hazy It could maybe you know seem a
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little bit hazy with some of the brush
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strokes Why was it revolutionary why was
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it such an important art movement
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the reason is because during that time
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the the French Academy favored
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historical mythological subjects They
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you know they want perfect realistic
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techniques dark muted color palettes and
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smooth and visible brush strokes So
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these artists that were painting
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impressionism were really breaking away
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from what would even be sold during the
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day or what people would show during the
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day which was you know this realistic
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sort of dark muted type of art
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Impressionists they rejected all of that
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You know they believed in real life not
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gods or heroes They had loose sort of
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sketchy strokes They had bright vibrant
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colors They had outdoor scenes and they
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had ordinary people doing ordinary
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things
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And this type of art was actually very
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shocking um during this time You know a
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lot of the critiques said things about
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them like the impressionist artists were
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lazy they were amateur and they were
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even disrespectful to the art and art
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world itself But the revolution wasn't
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just a style it was an attitude So the
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impressionists then started to exhibit
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outside of the the convention They they
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began to exhibit themselves They took
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art to the streets and to the
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countryside They documented modern life
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as it happened And they made art for
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art's sake not for institutions In other
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words they are people who broke the
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rules and started a movement that
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changed art forever That is something
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that I really love about the
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impressionism movement is these artists
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were doing art because they loved art
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They weren't doing art because that's
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what sold They were doing impressionist
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art because that's what they loved and
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that's what they wanted to do The core
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techniques of impressionism is is the
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use of light over details They had
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visible brush strokes They wanted to see
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the brush strokes you know the strokes
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of the brush on the painting They
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painted outdoors and you know this is
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one of the new things to be able to take
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it outdoors and be able to paint it
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outdoors And with that you know became
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things like the invention of the easel
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where they could bring it outdoors and
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some of the tubes of paint that they
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could bring outdoors So they'd bring it
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outdoors and they look at light and they
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look at nature and they look at everyday
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life They focus on everyday life and
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everyday people They you know painted
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cafes streets gardens and friends
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ordinary moments
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So some of the most famous impressionist
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artists would be of course Claude Monae
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would be considered one of the most
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famous Pierre August Renoir is is
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another one Edgar de Gos is one Bertha
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Amorisat is another These are some of
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the very famous artists and they're the
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artists that that changed art forever He
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knows that you know Berto Morsad is a
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woman that's there that um there were
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several women that were well-known also
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impressionist artists uh during this
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time frame So I have written a blog post
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on this if you'd be interested we can
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put it into the description entitled
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what is impressionism and why was it
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revolutionary and on there there's also
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some questions that we've have some
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frequently asked questions that we
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answer try to answer about impressionism
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and why impressionism art you know was
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such an important art movement you know
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one reason why is impressionism so
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popular today and I think one of the
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reasons is because it feels alive and
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emotional and accessible you know the
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colors are beautiful the scenes are
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familiar and the mood is uplifting and I
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think that's one reason why many people
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today still resonate with impressionist
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art Just to clarify a few things there
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is a difference between impressionism
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and postimpressionism And the reason I
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didn't list Vincent Van Gogh is because
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Vincent Van Go is considered a
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postimpressionist
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not an impressionist Even though he knew
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the impressionist and the impressionism
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his type of art was considered to be
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after impressionism art which is
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postimpressionism We've hope that you've
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