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As a young man, Signac showed an interest in both art and studied architecture before transferring to learn painting. In 1884, he met Georges Seurat, who would become his lifelong friend and collaborator. They founded the Salon des Indépendants and went on to develop the Pointillism technique together, inspired by the broken colour techniques in impressionism. However, while other Impressionists were concentrating on the natural world, Paul Signac’s interests lay more in the realm of urban scenes and cityscapes. In his series of paintings titled “The Port of Saint-Tropez”, for example, we see a view of the French Riviera town that is composed entirely of thousands of tiny dots of colour. Monet is one of the most prominent Impressionist painters, and his paintings capture changes in light in an incredibly realistic way. Monet based his paintings on an artistic interpretation of a retinal impression, the pattern of light that hits the retina in a moment. This method of painting translates into images that capture the minute shifts in light and color. In this way, Monet’s paintings capture the world in motion, on the brink of change. Within the conformist culture of the Cold War, a rising trend emerged in American art of the 1940s and 1950s for Action-based painting, in which gestures giving a sense of how the paint was applied to the canvas became an integral part of the final artwork.

Whereas the male Impressionists painted figures mainly within the public setting of the city, Berthe Morisot concentrated on the private lives of women in late-19 th-century society. The first woman to exhibit with the Impressionists, she created rich compositions that highlight the domestic, highly personal sphere of feminine society, often emphasizing the maternal bond between mother and child, as in The Cradle (1872). Together with Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, and Marie Bracquemond, she is considered one of the four central female figures of the Impressionist movement.

Riley claims that the curve, which she frequently uses in her work, relates to the fundamental human condition. Underscoring the somatic nature of vision, Riley explains "The curve is frozen movement. It relates to the way we walk. This side contracts, this side extends. When we see a painted curve we somehow recognize that." Being exposed to the London art scene for the first time, Riley found her studies at the Royal College of Art difficult, and she faced the dilemma most modern painters also experienced: "What should I paint, and how should I paint it?" The advent of synthetic colors and tubes of paint arrived during the Industrial Revolution, enabling the Impressionists and generations after to step out of their studios and paint en plein air , as well as providing a wider variety of colors at more affordable price points. This color revolution led, in part, to the shirking of artistic convention in favor of experimentation that occurred across movements during the 20th century. Riley's formal compositions invoke feelings of tension and repose, symmetry and asymmetry, dynamism and stasis and other psychic states, making her paintings less about optical illusions and more about stimulating the viewer's imagination.

The contrast between the straight and curved lines will add a dynamic element to your work, making it visually exciting to view. Use Markers Or Paint To Draw Confident Lines During the 1930s, Bill became a devoted disciple of the Kinetic art movement. For Bill, the beauty of Kinetic art lay in the purely mathematical precision that underlay it. Bill used mathematical understandings and principles to create objective motion within his artwork. He applied this theory to all of his sculptures in marble, brass, copper, and bronze. Draw the outline of your subject and outline where the darkest shadows and lightest highlights in the piece will be. This will give you an idea of where to place your dark and light pigments.On the other hand, if you use them to show motion in a figure or an object, they become lines of action. If you’re feeling confused, don’t worry, this isn’t the most straightforward concept to understand, but that just means you’ll have to work a little harder to wrap your head around how all of this works. Sometimes action is represented in a painting, not so much by the angle of the body but by the elements included in the story. On The Fly (above) shows a fly fisherman and his dog standing relatively still in the water but our eye takes us to the whipping motion of the rod and fly. How do you draw a body that is in motion? You do it by understanding anatomy. You need to understand how the human body is put together. Plus, how each part works together with the rest to propel a body in motion. This painting is widely considered to be the seminal work of pointillism. Seurat spent two years working on the piece, which depicts everyday people enjoying a Sunday afternoon in a park on the banks of the Seine River. Paul Signac: The Velodrome

Claude Monet was born into a middle-class merchant family in Paris. His parents were hardworking and financially secure but by no means rich or aristocratic, and throughout his early career Monet would struggle to survive as a painter. When he was very young his family moved from Paris to Le Havre, and though Monet returned to Paris in the early 1960s to train as an artist, it was during a visit to his family in Le Havre in 1872 that he created this and a number of other similar works. Camille Pissarro, long an important figure in the movement, aligned with the Neo-Impressionists in his later years thanks to his fascination with optics, though this was not received well by the public. His son Lucien had longer time as part of the Neo-Impressionists, though he is not as well known as his father. Post-Impressionism Artists using separate dots of colour, to allow the viewer’s eyes to mix optically. This method was first perfected by Georges Seurat. When these lines of action are straight, and you’re trying to depict a human being in motion, your drawing will look stiff and unnatural. Comprised of works submitted to the Salon that were rejected by the Académie, the group calling itself “The Cooperative and Anonymous Association of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers” featured 30 artists showing work, including some of the most now-famous names in art: Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro.

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The Impressionist took their name from an insult hurled by the press at one of Monet’s paintings, Impression, Sunrise. Critics heaped scorn on the work presented in the show as “unfinished” and compared it unfavorably to wallpaper. Monet For example, a 1915 piece on canvas called Dance, an Objectless Composition captures a sense of movement through the abstract arrangement of various shapes, colors, and textures. In his later years, Monet also became increasingly sensitive to the decorative qualities of color and form. He began to apply paint in smaller strokes, building it up in broad fields of color, and exploring the possibilities of a decorative paint surface of harmonies and contrasts of color. The effects that he achieved, particularly in the series paintings of the 1890s, represent a remarkable advance towards abstraction and towards a modern painting focused purely on surface effects. Monet describes his goals for the project: "Imagine a circular room, whose walls are entirely filled by a horizon of water spotted with these plants. Walls of transparency - sometimes green, sometimes verging on mauve. The silence and calm of the water reflecting the flowering display; the tones are vague, deliciously nuanced, as delicate as a dream."

Since other artists have had success with motion drawings, there’s no reason you can’t have success. Creating motion in a drawing is a lot like creating depth in that you aren’t creating actual motion; instead, you are creating the illusion of motion. As an avowed feminist, Cassatt played a key role in using Impressionist techniques to represent women’s lives, thoughts, and feelings. Her presence as an American expatriate in Paris is also symbolic of the strong relationship between French Impressionism and North America from the 1880s onwards. It was after their exposure to the American market, after all, that the Impressionists finally found real financial success. It’s de Kooning who’s often credited as the originator of Action Painting, and it’s the vigorous brushstrokes of his Woman series (started in the early 1950s) that would successfully evolve the emotive and expressive style.Like Kline, de Kooning often reworked his canvases, which produced a purposeful sense of dynamic incompletion. This meant that it seemed his forms were still in the process of moving and thus exemplified Rosenberg’sdefinition ofAction Paintingas an event, rather than a traditional finished artwork.Three of the most prominent Impressionist painters in the 19th century made great strides in capturing the ebbs and flows of life in their art. Monet, Degas, and Edouard Manet were pioneers of the changes in compositional style and innovations in painting technique which allowed artists to capture movement more realistically. Another significant pioneer of Kinetic art during the late 19th century was Auguste Rodin. Rodin used slightly different techniques to capture the movement of the world around him.