Parisienne Fashion and Impressionism
Idil Ozer 10/13/13
Art History 111
Prof. Kraus
Museum Essay #1
Impressionist Effect on Parisienne Fashion
The saying, “A woman is a corset is a lie, a falsehood, a fiction; but for us this fiction is better than reality was decorating Art Institute of Chicago’s walls, supporting the main idea behind Impressionism, which is “impression”. This art movement originates back to 19th Century’s France with a group of Parisienne artists. The trend reflects natural elements through person’s perspective in an emotional way; therefore the artists, who adopted Impressionism, do not display the reality objectively, but they filter it through their views and come up with their final impression that appears on the painting. Compositions usually underline the intensity of daylight depending of the hour and vivid pigments that are used, rather than the objects in the painting.
Impressionist painting was established in 1870’s against the conservative and repressive rules of Académie des Beaux- Arts which is French Fine Arts Academy. Artists like Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre- Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Paul C´zanne, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot did a showcase in 1874, outside of Paris and introduced themselves as Impressionists, as well as they introduced the art movement. As they adopted the trend, the painters had a few elements in common such as preferring to work on their paintings in open air; expressing the temporality and fugacity of the present were exclusively important to them.1 Therefore being in a dynamic and modern society also affected the technique they used which was applying brush prints rapidly. Besides their preference of using open air as their studios, the artists also used modern life elements for inspiration and therefore reflected on the social scenery of Paris in 19th century that included cafes, balls and hippodromes, as horseracing was one of the important events. 2
Like in every art movement, Impressionism was
Art History 111
Prof. Kraus
Museum Essay #1
Impressionist Effect on Parisienne Fashion
The saying, “A woman is a corset is a lie, a falsehood, a fiction; but for us this fiction is better than reality was decorating Art Institute of Chicago’s walls, supporting the main idea behind Impressionism, which is “impression”. This art movement originates back to 19th Century’s France with a group of Parisienne artists. The trend reflects natural elements through person’s perspective in an emotional way; therefore the artists, who adopted Impressionism, do not display the reality objectively, but they filter it through their views and come up with their final impression that appears on the painting. Compositions usually underline the intensity of daylight depending of the hour and vivid pigments that are used, rather than the objects in the painting.
Impressionist painting was established in 1870’s against the conservative and repressive rules of Académie des Beaux- Arts which is French Fine Arts Academy. Artists like Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre- Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Paul C´zanne, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot did a showcase in 1874, outside of Paris and introduced themselves as Impressionists, as well as they introduced the art movement. As they adopted the trend, the painters had a few elements in common such as preferring to work on their paintings in open air; expressing the temporality and fugacity of the present were exclusively important to them.1 Therefore being in a dynamic and modern society also affected the technique they used which was applying brush prints rapidly. Besides their preference of using open air as their studios, the artists also used modern life elements for inspiration and therefore reflected on the social scenery of Paris in 19th century that included cafes, balls and hippodromes, as horseracing was one of the important events. 2
Like in every art movement, Impressionism was