Impressionism described / explained in short quotes - free resource, French art history

Impressionism and its artists - short described and explained in short text-quotes + images - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in French art history

.
Impressionism was the first modern art-movement in Europe - at first typical French, later it spread to the other countries and even the U.S.!
The text-quotes in the PDF give in short the meaning, art-characteristics and the history of Impressionism and the goals of Impressionist artists. The text-quotes on Impressionism in Europe are taken from the Dutch art-critic Jacob Bendien; he was rather critical on Impressionism.

Moreover you can find on TES Resources the sourced quotes of the individual French Impressionist artists under their own names: Monet, Manet, Pissaro, Renoir, Degas, and others.
.
Some selected quotes on Impressionism by Jacob Bendien - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’The Impressionists, who only reproduce the first impression, the first sight, the first meeting with the object (often a landscape), see the object merely as a useful sounding board for their own state of mind.'

• ’They stroll along beside the sea, gloomy or happy, paint the sea accordingly and stroll along again. They see a form and paint it in the same tone and thus continue their journey.'

• ’Impressionism was more concerned with color, the special area of the emotions and also light and atmosphere, which was mainly ignored (c. 1908) by the Cubists as it tends to make the construction more vague.'
  .
  links for selected free art-resources on Impressionism:

  • for detailed information of the art movement Impressionism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism
  • for Impressionism, described in quotes by its artists: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Impressionism
  • for many characteristic art-images of the Impressionist artists: https://www.wikiart.org/en/paintings-by-style/impressionism
    .
    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]
    translation from Dutch, Anne Porcelijn: [http://www.anneporcelijn.nl]