Impressionism

Impression summary:
Impressionists happened in the 19th century, artists were encouraged to paint nature and pleasant life scenes. Most paintings were scenes of middle class urban life. There were important impressionists such as Claude Monet and Mary Cassatt. Realism meant to an impressionist that the painter ought tot record the most subtle sensations of reflected lights. = 5 pictures = Claude Monet Impression, Sunrise; Boulevard des Capucines, The Bodmer Oak

Edgard Degas

The Dance Class, A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers

Questions
1) What encouraged impressionists?

2) What time did the impressionists begin to draw?

3) Why do you think Degas made paintings of ballerinas?