OIL PAINTING: Rough Sea, 1881
The next generation of forward-looking
landscape painters, who adopted the name Impressionists in 1877, used the plein-air approach to capture scenes of modern life in urban and suburban settings. Setting up their easels in Paris and its suburbs, Monet ,
Auguste Renoir and their colleagues eroded their predecessors' distinctions between sketch and finished work by creating deliberately informal compositions with loose strokes of unmodulated color. Monet abandoned traditional techniques of perspective, chiaroscuro, and modeling in order to record his experiences as directly as possible. Even his most heavily worked paintings retain the appearance of spontaneity, like the Rough Sea, 1881.
57 from 155
