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Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
Pages in category "Spanish Impressionist painters" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This is the beginning of a more intimate, Impressionist style. He returned to Rome in 1876, having obtained a grant from the Diputación de València, this time staying for five years. [1] In 1884, due to a cholera epidemic in Valencia, Pinazo temporarily moved to the town of Bétera, where he stayed in the villa "Maria" of the banker Jose ...
The author Edward J. Sullivan describes in his book, From San Juan to Paris and Back: Francisco Oller and Caribbean Art in the Era of Impressionism: In the normal course of his day, the artist would have observed objects of quotidian use to the slaves and free persons of color with whom he regularly interacted.
The rest of 19th-century Spanish art followed European trends, generally at a conservative pace, until the Catalan movement of Modernisme, which initially was more a form of Art Nouveau. Picasso dominates Spanish Modernism in the usual English sense, but Juan Gris, Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró are other leading figures.
Through them, artistic movements such as Impressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Post-impressionism grew and thrived in China, only halted by the Second World War and the birth of the People's Republic of China, when modernistic artistic styles were seen as being inconsistent with the prevailing political ideals and realism was the only acceptable ...
“When I was like 13 years old I started to embrace my culture and learn everything about it.”
In this book, El Greco is described as the founder of the Spanish School and as the conveyor of the Spanish soul. [10] Julius Meier-Graefe , a scholar of French Impressionism , travelled in Spain in 1908 and wrote down his experiences in The Spanische Reise , the first book which established El Greco as a great painter of the past.