Impressionism

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Finding my Ways

• Art Portfolio
• Fauvism vs. Impressionism

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Part 1
Intro
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A little about Me

• Ingrid Nelson(18 year old)
• Port-au-Prince, Haiti
• Came to the USA in 2010
• I have been interested in art since my childhood

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Why this project?

• Passionate about art, art history and art
  movements
• Two art movements impressionism and fauvism
• I want to share what I have learned from them
  (techniques) and how they inspired me.

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Part 2

• Impressionism - Fauvism

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Profile Impressionism

• The name comes from Impressions, Sunrise a
  painting of Claude Monet
• Its a form of art that begin in France in the
  late 19th century.
• The leaders of the movements were Claude Monet
  and Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• They used vibrant color to capture the
  impressions of light in nature.

La loge, Auguste Renoir, 1874
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Profile Fauvism

• The name comes the French word fauve which
  means Wild Beasts.
• Its a style of painting that began in the early
  20th century.
• The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse
  and Andre Derain and Georges Braque and Maurice
  de Vlamink.
• They used colors to express their emotions about
  the subjects.

The Girl at Rat Mort, Maurice de Vlamink, 1905
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Technique Impressionism
Subjects Landscape was an important subject
for them. They also painted ordinary people
in everyday life.
Lighting They focused on the effects of light in
nature.
Color
The color are vivid, bright
vibrant they never use black in their palette.
Brushstrokes
They use a technique
called broken color.
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Technique Fauvism
Brushstrokes
They believe in the
simple and spontaneous brushstrokes.
Colors For them, color should be used to express
the emotions of the artist about a subject.
Subjects abstract, simple, flat, vague and
distorted.
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Women Impressionists
Berthe Morisot (January 14, 1841 March 2,
1895) close friend and colleague of Manet was
highly appreciated by the critics who call her
the most impressionistic of the Impressionists.
Mary Cassatt (May 22, 1844 June 14, 1926) an
American artist developed her style during her
studies in Paris.
Marie Bracquemond (1841 in Morlaix 1916 in
Paris) Exhibited with the impressionists but
abandoned painting because of her husband painter
himself.
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The dining room Berthe Morisot
Jules Being dry By his mother Mary Cassatt
Women with an umbrella Marie Bracquemond
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Part 3
My Products
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Work in Progress
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Work in Progress
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Work in Progress
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Working on my Paintings
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Final Results
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Final Results
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Final Results
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Final Results