Thursday, May 25, 2017

The Main Characteristics Of Extreme Impressionism

By Pamela King


When viewing a painting, portrait or drawing, the personality or character of the artist comes out. Art presents them with a degree of freedom that ultimately favors their quest for autonomy over their various masterpieces. Regardless, Extreme Impressionism is widely known as the single style of art that exudes its own special character that sets it apart from other forms of styles as in Cubism.

Impressionism is neither a collection of landscape artworks, nor the most renowned movement in French art. It is an attitude commonly shared by a number of individuals whose paintings are subject to the same problems. The name Claude Monet is synonymous to this movement. He was a prominent landscape painter, reputed for introducing new ideas, that formed the foundation of landscape painting.

Historians acknowledge that realism in artistic representations of Plein arts, as in extreme-impressionism, was first started by the Romantics, early in the nineteenth century. Their search for an authentic and realistic paintings of a natural environment added a distinct value to their works. Progressively, this form of art gained ground across Europe and to other global horizons.

The realism in impressionism is what fascinates most. True realism, as supported by Monet, was a series of plein-air paintings that are characterized by robust, unmatched and spontaneous strokes of brush. The main character was the mere details focused on depicting light as seen by the eyes. The paintings captured transitory moments, and if an object assumed a different pigment other than its original, due to reflection, so will the artist paint it.

As earlier stated, light has a lot to do with extreme-impressionism. When reflected, or disintegrated, light falls on objects, and it gives them a totally different character in the perspective of a painter. Artists who are part of impressionist movements are normally intuitive. This characteristic enables them observe how variance of luminosity brings about different shades of light on objects. Unlike other paintings. Realistic art is not influenced by emotions, but by intuition.

Another critical aspect of extreme impression arts is color. Early artworks by Romantics appeared dingy, because of too much use of dark pigments. This veiled the underlying purpose, and compromised the whole concept of using light. Resultantly, the following generation of artists sought after more bright colors like orange, green, blue, violet, and crimson among others. Nonetheless, most of them relied on their natural ability to observe the character in a natural setting.

Impressionism, as a matter of fact, did not hatch any school. It neither had a clear manifesto, nor set standards on how to paint. In simple terms, it comprises a series of art groups made up of artists whose trajectory of thought in regard to their works are parallel. Regardless, each of them is always very cautious not to compromise their individuality as far as their works go.

In America, the impact of this revolutionary stylistic painting approach cannot be ignored. It brought with it a unique approach to create realistic impressions, totally different form other forms of painting. It is through such a style that many young impressionists have nurtured their skills.




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