William Cook posted a very good challenge in DPW entitled the Mid-ism challenge. This challenge is to find the midpoint between impressionism and expressionism. In addition, he suggested seeking inspiration by checking out the paintings of
Julius Seyler. This painting is my submission to the challenge. I am not even near what Julius Seyler did but I learned so much!
I had to look up the definitions of expressionism and impressionism because I realized through this challenge I was unsure what the meaning for each included. According to Wikipedia the definitions are below as they relate to art:
Expressionism was a
modernist movement, initially in
poetry and
painting,
originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its
typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective
perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to
evoke moods or ideas.Expressionist artists sought to express meaning
or emotional experience rather than physical reality.
Impressionism is a 19th-century
art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists. Their independent
exhibitions
brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s, in spite of
harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. The name
of the style derives from the title of a
Claude Monet work,
Impression, soleil levant (
Impression, Sunrise), which provoked the critic
Louis Leroy to
coin the term in a
satirical review published in the Parisian newspaper
Le Charivari.
Impressionist painting characteristics include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open
composition,
emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities
(often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary
subject matter, inclusion of
movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.
