9/26/2012

A Closer Look At Modern Impressionist Artists

By Casandra Newton


The world of painting was boring and monotonous with traditional and rigid forms until the arrival of modern impressionist artists. They began in Paris in the 1860s but their effect did not take long to spread to other parts of the world. They defied traditional procedures of producing fine and detailed paints. Instead, they sought to try and bring on canvasses temporary and sensory views.

They created images that could only hit the eyes of the viewer temporarily. This they did from the open environments and surroundings but not inside the studios. They did not actually require realistic representations to come up with their images.

Transitions in time, climatic conditions and other shifts in the atmosphere were conveyed using the visual effects of direct light from the sun. Canvas was the material they used to put their work on. Uncontaminated and intense colors were achieved by the loosening of their brushwork and the lightening of their slides.

Besides, they also persisted on expressing the all-purpose view of a particular sight from the outside environment. Reflected light was used as a representation of primary colors through short strokes of brushes. Capturing the sight of the subject instead of the subject itself was what they strived to.

Painters also got away from concentrating only on the key subject and brought the surrounding environment and objects more outstandingly into the masterpiece of the painting. Preliminary paint was no longer given time to dry. Instead, fresher pain application was done while the preceding paint was still wet. What came out were soft edges. Besides, colors were allowed to mix more naturally on the canvas.

Not long after painters had taken a different turn, music composers also adopted this new stance. Traditional forms of music composition were shied away from. In its place, discordant chords and varying arrangements were employed to express personal feelings and moods. Through this new system, musicians got a chance to suggest their own moods and places by using indistinguishable rhythms and vigorous, altering harmonies. What they composed attempted to produce diagrammatic descriptions. To do this, they required suggestions on light and color by alerting pitch, tone and rhythm.

Impressionism did not just stop with painters and musicians but writers and poets also adopted it. They began using imagery and symbolism to express their views, instead of using the customary premeditated traits of some proceedings and objects. Instead of trying to understand their know-how, writers now adopted a style that majorly focused on the state of mind of a character, as drawn from their senses. On the hand, poetry started looking for answers from the major themes instead of describing the real feelings that are experienced.

A wider and more open way of looking at art in general was improved by impressionism. It gave artists a chance to try out their own things while at the same time using conventional methods. It is because of this reason that contemporary creativity forms were developed.

New forms of art emerged due to modern impressionist artists. Besides, music composition and the style of writing were also improved. Impressionism therefore can be said to be the revolution that ever occurred in the entertainment field.




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