One of the important schools of painting of the 19th century – Impressionism

Impressionism is one of the important art schools of the 19th century, which emerged in the 1860s and 1870s, and became famous in the first joint exhibition of painters of this school in 1874. in the last 30 years of the 19th century, it became the mainstream of French art, and influenced the entire European and American painting world.

If the Renaissance movement is the beginning of modern painting, the establishment of a scientific drawing modeling system, the knowledge of chiaroscuro, perspective, anatomy and other scientific use of the plastic arts, then the Impressionists is the starting point of modern painting, which completed the transformation of the color modeling of the paintings, the introduction of the scientific concepts of light and color into the paintings, the innovation of the traditional concept of the intrinsic color, the creation of the color of the source of the light and the environment as the core of the color science of modern sketching. Modern sketching color science. It also recognized the unique aesthetic value of art forms and made bold explorations in form, laying the foundation for the emergence of modern art.

Impressionist painters shouldered the historical task of studying the relationship between light and color. They no longer relied on traditional laws and dogmas, and after being inspired by the outdoor sketching of the Barbizon School and the British landscape painters, they boldly stepped out of the studio to face nature for sketching and creation. They seldom went back to the studio to reorganize their works after sketching outdoors, so as to keep the vividness of sketching outdoors. After sketching outside, the Barbizon School mostly went back to their studios to create and organize their works. According to the development of contemporary science, the Impressionist painters understood the composition of light and the relationship between light and color, and relied on their own eyes to reproduce the impression caused by the light and color of the object in their vision. In this way, a great revolution was accomplished in grasping color.

Nowadays, the color theory taught in art schools and the widely known color knowledge such as conditioned color, contrasting color, and the three elements of color are all derived from the research results of the Impressionists on color.