Artists
Paintings
Artworks
Impressionism
Characteristics and Vocab
100
Best known for painting water lillies

Claude Monet

100

The shocker of a painting "Luncheon on the grass" was painted by this 'non' Impressionist painter

Who is Edward Manet

100

This oil painting by Degas depicts two stragers sitting at a table in a cafe drinking a toxic greenish drink.

L’Absinthe 1876, oil on canvas

100

Impression Sunrise is the painting that gave Impressionism its name. He painted it.

Who is Claude Monet
100

To paint outside

En Plein Air

200

This French artist painted people in cafes but most painted ballet dancers

Who is Edgar Degas

200

Courbet influenced the Impressionists to start painting. True or False? 

True

200

The painting's juxtaposition of fully dressed men and a nude woman was controversial

What is the painting Luncheon on the Grass by Edward Manet

200

Impasto is this type of applied paint to any surface

What is a thick layer, application of paint.

200

mixing light

Additive color mixing

300

She painted the "Little girl in blue armchair"

Who is Mary Cassatt

300

Flood at Port-Marly was painted by this dude

Who is Sisley

300

This painting shown in the 7th Impressionist exhibition shows a bunch of friends gathered around a table in the middle of the day eating lunch and enjoying themselves

What is "Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Renoir

300

Originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s.

The dates most associated are 1865-1885

What is Impressionism duh

300

mixing pigments ( where colors get darker the more they're mixed ) 

subtractive color mixing

400

He painted the painting where people are relaxing, talking, dancing outside at a local favorite hangout named Bal du moulin de la Galette

Who is Renoir 

400
The 1873 oil painting by this artist depicts a woman sitting in a field of grass reading? And titled "Reading" is by who? 

 Who is Berthe Morisot

400

Bronze sculptures were made by this Impressionist artist, although he didn't consider himself an Impressionist. 

Who is Degas

400

Radicals in their time, early Impressionists violated the rules of academic painting. They constructed their pictures from freely brushed colors that took precedence over lines and contours, following the example of painters such as Eugène Delacroix and J. M. W. Turner. They also painted realistic scenes of modern life, and often painted outdoors. List them.

Who are the Impressionist: Pissarro, Claude Monet, Degas, Cassett, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Manet. Did I forget anyone

400

Small dabs of color, emphasis on light, the use of complementary colors, painting the same subject at different times of day or or year, to capture a "fleeting" moment

Characteristics of Impressionism

500

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère was a painting of a bar tender with a secret message. Who painted it?

Who is Edward Manet

500

Titled "Effet de Neige à Louveciennes" (1874) a painting of a snowy roadside. This artist really captured thewarm light on the snow and the coolness of the snow in the shadows

Who is Sisley

500

Stolen by the nazis "Five Dancing Women" in 1940, was painted by this artist. The painting is still missing.

Who is Degas

500

Following a practice—pioneered by artists such as this Englishman— that had become increasingly popular by mid-century, they often ventured into the countryside together to paint in the open air.

Who is John Constable. He set the new practice of going outside to paint.

500

This technique layers some paint over another layer of paint, allowing the bottom layer of paint to show through slightly.

What is Scubbling