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=Leo's Wiki on Impressionism=

1. Impressionism

of music. For instance painting a picture that makes us think such as a painting showing the actual corruption of politics by displaying greed and money. Musically it's the same. Writing lyrics that expresses the writers' opinions and feelings, not just pleasing them. Writing about their views on again, the all ever favourite, politics.**
 * Okey, so in a nutshell, Impressionism is a theory or a style of painting

"//Impression, soleil levant"//.**
 * The word impressionism comes from the famous painting by Claude Monet

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2. Art in the Impressionism in general

their independed exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s-1880s.
 * The art in the Impressionism consisted mostly of artists from Paris who with

The most famous painting probably is Claude Monet's "//Impression, soleil levant" 1872.// This painting provoked critics from people like Louis Leroy to coin the phrase in a magazine called Le Charivari. This is Claude Monet's famous picture;**



and a picture that would "Shoot" out with an //Impression// on the person seeing the painting. Natural light, which gives the feeling of reality is important. Shadings were often used, who knows, maybe to display the horrid reality in the shadows. Thick and short strokes of paint to capture the picture right away instead of in detail, once again to give the impression in the piece.
 * Some common artistic methods during this period were often the use of boldness

In general the art in the Impressionism was inspiring, probably moving and for some ignorant people revealing in a sence. As for the other artists they were also inspired by each other and had a lot of more good ideas come out of it. The art was there to give people an impression of the artist's feelings, obviously and they succeeded pretty well.**

3.Monet

which has been mentioned above,** **"//Impression, soleil levant".// This work is what actually founded the term Impressionism, and thus he is a vital man in the story of Impressionism.
 * Claude Monet made a lot of famous and "impressioning" pictures in his days, one of

We do not care when he was born, but I'll let you know anyway. His full name was** **Oscar Claude Monet** **(14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926). Paris was his hometown, and he dropped out of school at the age of sixteen and went off with his widowed and childless aunt. Interesting to see how all the great minds decide to quit school at the age of 16. He had a lot of famous people mentoring and tutoring him in his paintings along the way, which lead to these beautiful pictures. He traveled to visit the Louvre, and was basically bored with all that he saw. Nothing inspiring, copied paintings of all the previous artists were posted to view.

He wanted something else, and thus he, having brought all his material, sat in a window and painted what he saw and felt. Again, his painting //"Impression, soleil levant"// is one of many masterpieces that in this case coined the phrase Impression by critics. //On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt// was one of his first works, this one made his breakthrough though, and from there on he continued to make these increasingly satisfying paintings.**  4.Renoir

were. Born in February 25, 1841, died December 3, 1919 thus another great painter was lost.
 * Pierre-Auguste Renoir, his name was. One of the leading painters like Claude he certainly

His painting started as a child when he worked at a factory, and his talent was noticed and further he was asked to do some work which included chinese designs to hangings for missionaries. In those years, he did as Claude, he went to the Louvre and had a peek at some of the master painters, dreaming of being one. In 1862 he began studying art and met among other Mr. Monet. Funny the arithmatic in all this. Renoir experienced his first artistic acclaim when six of his paintings hung in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. Then he was considered an accomplished painter.

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the same characteristics as some of the Claude paintings.**  5.Pissarro
 * This is one of his many famous paintings which is called //"Bal du moulin de la Galette"// and has

child, at twelve he was sent to a boarding school. During his stay there he became more and more fond of anarchism, which is pretty interesting considering the work he did (impressionism). In 1855 he went off to Paris to study, once again, at Louvre etcetera to become one of many great painters. One of his most appreciated early works was //"Jallais Hill, Pontoise// 1867**//".// **Pissarro married Julie Vellay, a maid in his mother's home.** **They had eight children**, **one of which died at birth and one daughter died aged nine. The surviving children all painted and lived good lives.**
 * Jacob-Abraham-Camille Pissarro was his name, and until the age of twelve was an unschooled


 * This is his famous //"Jallais Hill".

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6. Music in the Impressionism in general

Again, most of this took place in France along with the great painters we now know all about. Impressionist music focused on suggestion and atmosphere instead of the normal emotions you find elsewhere. There are two really known composers of this time; Claude Debussy and Maurice**  7.Debussy
 * Music in the Impressionism was a** **reaction to 19th century Romanticism.
 * Ravel which we will hear about now.**

1862 and left us at March 25, 1918. Along with Ravel, he was one of the most known and symbolic figures of the Impressionist music at the time.
 * Claude Debussy, (** **Achille-Claude Debussy) came out of a tummy on August 22,

His talent was truly discovered in** **1872, at age ten, after which he joined Paris Conservatorie, which he stayed for 11 years. His mucis is known for only using one pitch or key. His music had correlations with the turbulence in his own life which one then of course can see how turbulent it was. His music was inspired by another strain of era, called the Symbolism.

All the way in his schooling, he was talented, but he continued to question the establishment of especially the school and how it ran. He was an outstanding pianist and among the few that could be whatever he would chose to be. For two years during 1980-1982 he spent time teaching children in Russia in which he did produce some pieces, but none were printed under his name.

In 1884 he won the Prix de Rome, and his breakthrough truly began. From then on he kept making more and more touching pieces of work, and thus we know him as Claude Debussy.**  8.Ravel

Claude Debussy in terms of being the most renown composers in the era of Impressionism.
 * Joseph-Maurice Ravel**, **March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937 was along side with

Surprise surprise, the two of them met later in life during the 1890's at which point Claude was highly known. They both admired each other, and both got something out of the accuaintance in their music. His breakthrough was //"Mirrors"//** **in** **1905 which was considered a striking beauty and somewhat original compositions.

Ravel entered the war, and met among others a young Adolf Hitler, and wanted to fight in the air force. Yet his health was considered too poor to participate, and since his mother had just passed, which he was very fond of, he entered what he called horrible despair. He did create some compositions during the war, all of them greatly liked.

His death all began with a taxi accident, which at the time wasn't considered truly harmful, in the end he volunteered to brain surgery experimentation, in which he died in late 1937 aged 62.**  9.Vaughan Williams

Purcell. In a long career, he composed music noted for its power, nobility and expressiveness, representing, the essence of 'Englishness'. Vaughan Williams was born in 1872. He was educated at Charterhouse School, then Trinity College, Cambridge. Later on he was a student of Stanford and Parry at the Royal College of Music following his studies with Max Bruch in Berlin and Maurice Ravel in Paris. Interesting mark is that this man's writing did not improve with age, it rather was the opposite.
 * Vaughan Williams is probably the greatest composer Britain has seen since the days of Henry

Vaughan Williams' works are quite spread and uneven, all that can be said is that his works were great, and his persona will be missed. His death in 1958** **was a tragic one, but at least he perished of natural causes.**

10.Delius

I prefer the best. His parents were both German, and he was a German-English composer. Sooner or later his father decided to let him be educated in Leipzig for musical purposes. There he actually befriended himself with Grieg, and Grieg insisted on a lifelong friendship. One can wonder why.
 * Finally we have the great Delius!** **29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934**, **and his works are those of which

He was intrieged by African-American music and culture, and many of his works derived from there. His first composition published was in Florida, called //"Florida Suite".// From then on he continued to make composition after composition more amazing than the other. His musical genious was often based in harmonies and that really is all that can be said.

This man will be dearly missed to me anyway, and he died of natural causes in the tenth of June 1934.**