A Comparative Study of Most Famous artist of Impressionism

“Impression, sunrise”,Oil on canvas,48 cm × 63 cm , Musée Marmottan Monet , Paris

Claude Monet “La maison de l'artiste à Giverny” 73.5 x 73.5 cm, 1912

Claude Monet(1840-1926) was a French painter. He laid the foundation for French Impressionism. The term “impressionism” was come from his painting- impression, sunrise. Because he is the representative of impressionism, he likes to use lots of colours in order to show the details of the moment. New classicism is challenged by the coming of industrial age, Manet started a colour revolution- outdoor objects have mixed bright colours, and questioned the tenets of perspective anatomy. And Monet was involved in this movement. They breaking through the previous conservative ideas. Monet’s work(eg. La maison de l'artiste à Giverny) is also a representation of impressionist. He didn’t follow the usual painting techniques, and he’s work has lots of similarity with Manet’s work, they all depicting the pictures they saw at that time, they like to use bright and strong colours to showing the light and shadows. They abandoned tradition, use colours instead of lines. Therefore his work is one layer of colour overlay on another layer of colour to achieve this effect, the mixed colour looks rich but they don’t look messy, it requires many skills to reach that.

Isaac Levitan “Lake”, oil painting, 1900

Isaac Levitan is also an influential artist for me, his work has been called the “mood landscape”. His style is similar to Claude Monet’s work therefore people always compared his work with Monet’s work. But he is not actually a impressionism artist, his work has a classic charm of Russian landscape painting, and his creature- the mood landscape is which the natural shape and condition are spiritualised and become the carrier of the human soul condition(King, Averil (2004). "Levitan and the Silver Birch". Apollo. 160: 46–51.). He is also good at catch the special moments of landscape, but different from Claude Monet, he didn’t use massive colours to instead of lines, his work always have a clear composition. However, his capture of light is brilliant and his work had affect me a lot.

“View of the CanalSaint-Martin,Paris”, 1870

Alfred Sisley(1839-1899) is also one of the creator of French Impressionism. He associated with Claude Monet in 1862. His work is mostly reflect a silver tonalities. He

has a series of important paintings on the Thames, his works are characterise by tranquility, Over the years, Sisley's colour intensity and expressive ability have continued to improve.