Impressionism: a style in which the artist captures the image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it. There is lots of color and most images are of outdoor scenes. They are bright and vibrant, yet without detail; just bold colors. They are soft, dreamy,and have a painterly feel.
After researching on arsty.net and artbabble.org, I've gotten a pretty decent idea of what Impressionism is. Important aspects of this style is color (light flickering off water, moving clouds, a burst of rain), light (quickly shifting light on a surface; this is an important aspect when considering the blurry and soft feel of this type of art), and the lack of finish (appearing as rough, unfinished sketch, lacking detail, adding to the softness) However, I also researched Impressionism photography.
I'm extremely excited for this assignment, because being a photographer, I would love to try this new style. The picture above really follow Impressionistic styles and techniques. It's dreamy, a little blurry, and it resembles blotted paint strokes. I believe it will be a little bit of a challenge to incorporate rhythm into this since the majority of Impressionistic photos have a soft look that flows. However, I think that will make for a really interesting and striking image. I'm gong to accomplish rhythm through the use of my helper media.
Because I need to show a breadth of things in this project and throughout the whole class in general, I'm going to mix photography and acrylic paint, the paint being my helper media. Impressionistic photography already has a very soft and painterly feel to it, but I'm going to attempt to make the photos just slightly sharper than the one above and add the soft paint feel to it through the actual use of acrylic paint. Through the direction of my brush strokes, I will add slightly noticeable rhythm. Just enough to incorporate it, but not too much as to distract from the smooth feel of the image.
