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Impressionists

	Manet	Monet	Renoir	Degas
Subjects:	Took classical subjects and updated them with contemporary models and situations. Early work: Realist. Late work: Impressionist.	Landscapes, riverside scenes. Late work: series on haystacks, waterlily pond, Rouen Cathedral; increasingly abstract.	Female nudes, people in liesure time activities (cafés, dance halls). Late work: solid-looking female nudes, often bathing.	Interior scenes of ballerinas, laundresses, women bathing.
Style:	Black outlines, little shading, visible brushstrokes, emphasis on surface. Late work: more colorful.	Bright colors, choppy brushstorkes, atmospheric quality. Late style: very misty look, indistinct forms, solid matter seems to dissolve.	Feathery brushstrokes, colorful scenes, blurred backgrounds. Late style: disciplined, yet jittery, brushstrokes, not as much spontaneity in composition.	Duller, sometimes caustic coloring with pastels; spontaneous looking compositions with figures crammed into a corner; large open areas devoid of figures; people cut off on the edge of the canvas.
Quote:	"I am fated to be vilified, and I accept it philosophically...But after I am dead they will realize I saw and thought with exactitude."	"When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you."	"For me a picture should be a pleasant thing, joyful and pretty - yes pretty! There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need for us to manufacture more."	"A painting needs as much fraudulence, trickery and deception as the perpetration of a crime. Paint falsely, and then add a whiff of nature."

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