Impressionism

Name: Impressionism
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A new and better way to see the world around us by way of the Joie de Vivre.

Created byFederico von Borstel

Last updated 8/2021

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What you'll learn

Students taking this course will improve significantly their ability to see as artists.
Increased appreciation of Art
The course promotes self-learning.
The course seeks to enrich your life experience.

Course content

1 section • 16 lectures • 1h 22m total length

Introduction1:38
Explore impressionism through an engaging introduction, outline method and light, and survey Monet's waterlilies, Renoir, floral paintings, and the emergence of modern sculpture.
On Method and Light7:43
Examine how impressionists use direct brushwork, short strokes, and glazing to model light, color, and water reflections in a naturalistic style.
Edouard Manet11:32
Explore how Edouard Manet and early impressionists challenged academic French painting standards by embracing looser brushwork, light, and everyday subjects, from cafes to river scenes, capturing fleeting moments.
Claude Monet12:44
Explore Claude Monet's impressionist breakthroughs in light and color, from river scenes to the garden pond and water lilies at Giverny, using softened vision to reveal modern art's precursors.
Claude Monet, Rouen Light Studies3:41
Explore how Claude Monet's Rouen Cathedral light studies capture changing light and shade on the same facade, revealing warmth and cool tones across varying weather.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir5:37
Explore Renoir's impressionist mastery as he captures on-site scenes, dappled light, and the joie de vivre through carefully staged models, sketch development, and evolving color softness.
Edgar Degas6:25
Explore Degas's masterful depictions of dancers and theater through light, reflections, and pastel technique. See how he built final works from sketches and observation to capture gesture and movement.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec3:06
Explore Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the impressionism course, referencing the caption’s notes on money and that he grew up to frame the artist's context.
Edouard Vuillard2:24
Explore Edouard Vuillard within impressionism, focusing on themes hinted in the caption, such as family, neighborhood, and the subconscious.
Henri Fantin-Latour1:53
Explore impressionism through the works of Henri Fantin-Latour and his distinctive approach. Engage with the artist within the context of the course, clarifying themes and significance for learners.
Camille Pissarro5:44
Explore Camille Pissarro's move from impressionism to post-impressionism and his mentorship. See his window view of Paris, especially the boulevard Montmartre during Haussmann's renovation.
Berthe Morisot3:56
Explore Berthe Morisot’s light touch in portraits and intimate landscapes. Notice her soft light on trees and grasses, and her ties to Edma Morisot and Eugene Manet.
Auguste Rodin, The Emergence of Modern Sculpture3:14
Explore how Auguste Rodin's works signal the emergence of modern sculpture within the Impressionism course.
Gustave Caillebotte5:21
Gustave Caillebotte captures urban Paris through balconies, rain-soaked cobbles, and elevated views, highlighting Haussmann-era architecture and blue and ocher tones in his thoughtful compositions.
Joaquin Sorolla,2:20
Discover the impressionism artist Joaquin Sorolla as featured in this lecture, exploring his role within the impressionism course.
Course Catalog5:32
Outline the impressionism course catalog and its presentation of the course content for learners seeking a concise overview.

Requirements

An interest and love for art.

Description

We are going to sit at our favorite café with a cup of coffee or tea, and enjoy life while sharing with you as my friends the knowledge of this subject which I have developed over my entire life as a practicing artist and art historian. In this course we will also seek to learn from the French how to enjoy life, the Joie de Vivre, which is the main theme of these beautiful paintings. Impressionism revolutionized the way we see and convey the world around us. In this course we focus primarily on French Impressionism. First we cover the founders of Impressionism: Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec. Then we will explore the work of some less well known, but excellent artists: Vuillard, Fantin-Latour, Pissarro, Berthe Morisot, the sculptor Rodin, Caillebotte, and the Spanish master Sorolla. Everything covered in this course is based on direct and first hand observation focusing on the works, the art, rather than on all the tangential things.

I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who wants to learn how to see like an Impressionist artist.