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hi this is Anita with Five Minutes with
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Art Today we're going to talk a little
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bit about one of the most famous art
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movements around is impressionism and
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why is impressionism such an important
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art movement well first of all let's
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talk about what is impressionism
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Impressionism is a style of painting
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that emerged in France in the 1860s
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and 1870s It was defined by visible
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brush strokes light focus color everyday
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subjects outdoor settings which is you
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know a planer uh painting it was called
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So it wasn't realistic at all It was
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more you know type of artwork which in
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some ways can almost be a little bit
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hazy It could maybe you know seem a
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little bit hazy with some of the brush
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strokes Why was it revolutionary why was
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it such an important art movement
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the reason is because during that time
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the the French Academy favored
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historical mythological subjects They
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you know they want perfect realistic
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techniques dark muted color palettes and
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smooth and visible brush strokes So
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these artists that were painting
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impressionism were really breaking away
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from what would even be sold during the
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day or what people would show during the
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day which was you know this realistic
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sort of dark muted type of art
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Impressionists they rejected all of that
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You know they believed in real life not
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gods or heroes They had loose sort of
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sketchy strokes They had bright vibrant
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colors They had outdoor scenes and they
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had ordinary people doing ordinary
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And this type of art was actually very
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shocking um during this time You know a
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lot of the critiques said things about
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them like the impressionist artists were
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lazy they were amateur and they were
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even disrespectful to the art and art
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world itself But the revolution wasn't
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just a style it was an attitude So the
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impressionists then started to exhibit
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outside of the the convention They they
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began to exhibit themselves They took
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art to the streets and to the
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countryside They documented modern life
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as it happened And they made art for
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art's sake not for institutions In other
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words they are people who broke the
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rules and started a movement that
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changed art forever That is something
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that I really love about the
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impressionism movement is these artists
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were doing art because they loved art
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They weren't doing art because that's
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what sold They were doing impressionist
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art because that's what they loved and
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that's what they wanted to do The core
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techniques of impressionism is is the
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use of light over details They had
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visible brush strokes They wanted to see
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the brush strokes you know the strokes
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of the brush on the painting They
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painted outdoors and you know this is
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one of the new things to be able to take
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it outdoors and be able to paint it
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outdoors And with that you know became
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things like the invention of the easel
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where they could bring it outdoors and
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some of the tubes of paint that they
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could bring outdoors So they'd bring it
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outdoors and they look at light and they
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look at nature and they look at everyday
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life They focus on everyday life and
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everyday people They you know painted
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cafes streets gardens and friends
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So some of the most famous impressionist
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artists would be of course Claude Monae
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would be considered one of the most
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famous Pierre August Renoir is is
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another one Edgar de Gos is one Bertha
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Amorisat is another These are some of
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the very famous artists and they're the
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artists that that changed art forever He
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knows that you know Berto Morsad is a
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woman that's there that um there were
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several women that were well-known also
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impressionist artists uh during this
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time frame So I have written a blog post
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on this if you'd be interested we can
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put it into the description entitled
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what is impressionism and why was it
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revolutionary and on there there's also
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some questions that we've have some
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frequently asked questions that we
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answer try to answer about impressionism
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and why impressionism art you know was
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such an important art movement you know
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one reason why is impressionism so
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popular today and I think one of the
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reasons is because it feels alive and
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emotional and accessible you know the
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colors are beautiful the scenes are
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familiar and the mood is uplifting and I
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think that's one reason why many people
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today still resonate with impressionist
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art Just to clarify a few things there
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is a difference between impressionism
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and postimpressionism And the reason I
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didn't list Vincent Van Gogh is because
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Vincent Van Go is considered a
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not an impressionist Even though he knew
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the impressionist and the impressionism
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his type of art was considered to be
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after impressionism art which is
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postimpressionism We've hope that you've
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