Impressionism 8 grade 1 period Information

Impressionism

Claude Monet

Claude Monet was a famous French painter whose work gave a name to the art movement Impressionism, which was concerned with capturing light and natural forms.

NAMEClaude Monet

OCCUPATION Painter

BIRTH DATE November 14, 1840D

EATH DATE December 5, 1926

DID YOU KNOW?Monet attempted suicide in 1868—one year after his first child was born—by trying to drown himself in the Seine River.

PLACE OF BIRTH Paris, France

PLACE OF DEATH Giverny, France

FULL NAMEOscar Claude Monet

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

An innovative artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on February 25, 1841, in Limoges, France. He started out as an apprentice to a porcelain painter and studied drawing in his free time.

OCCUPATIONPainter

BIRTH DATEFebruary 25, 1841

DEATH DATEDecember 3, 1919

EDUCATIONÉcole des Beaux-Arts

PLACE OF BIRTHLimoges, France

PLACE OF DEATHCagnes-sur-Mer, France

“I was a very diligent student; I ground away in the academic way . . . . But I never obtained the slightest honorable mention and my professors were unanimous in finding my painting wretched.”

—Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Edgar Degas

Painter and sculptor Edgar Degas was a highly celebrated 19th century French Impressionist whose work helped shape the fine art landscape for years to come.

NAME:  Edgar Degas

OCCUPATIONSculptor, Painter

BIRTH DATEJuly 19, 1834

DEATH DATESeptember 27, 1917

EDUCATIONÉcole des Beaux-Arts (formerly the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris), University of Paris (Université de Paris), Lycée Louis-le-Grand

PLACE  OF BIRTHParis, France

PLACE OF DEATHParis, France

AKA

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar de Gas

Edgar De Gas

Edgar Degas

NICKNAME: Painter of Dancers

FULL NAME

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas

“If painting weren't difficult, it wouldn't be so fun.”

—Edgar Degas

Mary Cassatt

NAMEMary Cassatt

OCCUPATIONPainter

BIRTH DATEMay 22, 1844

DEATH DATEJune 14, 1926

EDUCATIONPennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

PLACE OF BIRTHAllegheny, PennsylvaniaPLACE OF DEATHLe Mesnil-Théribus, FranceFULL NAMEMary

Born on May 22, 1844, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, Mary Cassatt was one of the leading artists in the Impressionist movement of the later part of the 1800s. Moving to Paris, her home for the rest of her life, she was befriended by Edgar Degas.

Study of Art

Though women of her day were discouraged from pursuing a career, Mary Cassatt enrolled in Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at age 16.

Despite her family's strong objections (her father declared he would rather see his daughter dead than living abroad as a "bohemian"), Mary Cassatt left for Paris in 1866. She began her study with private art lessons in the Louvre, where she would study and copy masterpieces.

She continued to study and paint in relative obscurity until 1868, when one of her portraits was selected at the prestigious Paris Salon, an annual exhibition run by the French government. With her father's disapproving words echoing in her ears, Cassatt submitted the well-received painting under the name Mary Stevenson.

“I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.”

—Mary Cassatt

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