Whereas Cézanne focused on shapes, Gauguin focused on capturing the true _______ of the subject.
emotion
___________ has been described by several members as the fatherly figure or the peacemaker of the Impressionists.
Pissarro
Because she was restricted on who she could paint, Morisot commonly portrays _____.
domesticity
The Impressionists embraced the idea that the ____________ of an object changes its makeup according to quick and changing elements: light, weather, or reflection.
color
What helped even more with the intensity of color was that Impressionists, as a whole, rejected the absence of color. In other words, they abhorred using ________ in their paintings.
black
Another characteristic that is distinct to ________ from other Impressionists is how he used lines and depth in his paintings.
Degas
The flat images with the bright colors and the overall design of the Japanese prints were what _____ adopted into her painting style.
Cassatt
While many people were only interested in the actual final production, _____ was intrigued by that and also the preparation for the ballet performance.
Degas
Many of _________’s works are so similar to Degas’ style that it is almost as if he was instructed to use Degas’ paintings as a template.
Lautrec
_________ felt that the only thing black did was to create a visual hole in the painting. Instead of black, he chose to use dark blue for his shadows and other objects.
Renoir
One of the biggest challenges _________ faced was to drop painting what he “knew” to be true and focus on what really “is.”
Monet
In order to keep up with the changing elements, the artists created a short, choppy _____________ that has since become quite characteristic of this movement of art.
brushstroke
__________ wanted to reproduce what he saw in its absolute true form: its geometry.
Cézanne
How the group of artists handled this breakaway was what eventually ended up into two different groups: the more ________ approach (it has been called Neo-Impressionism) and the more emotional approach.
scientific
While many of the others took on subjects that depicted nature, _____ took on joy that is found in people in their most natural and happy state.
Renoir
One of the critics basically mocked Monet’s _________ of his painting and made degrading remarks about how the paintings were just that, merely impressions and not paintings.
title
__________ did paint her father and brothers, but she found her true niche in painting children and their mothers.
Cassatt
Hailed as the leader of Impressionism
Monet
His painting essentially provided the Impressionists their name.
Monet
Painted a series of water lilies
Monet
Monet created quite a scandal with his painting, __________
Olympia
Created a series of haystacks that depicted the different seasons and effects of light
Monet
While Manet pushed away traditional subjects, he did still embrace much of the classical techniques. He revered the _________ artists and studied their style in depth.
Renaissance
_____ was one of the group who helped organize all the Impressionist shows, and was also the only one of them who had his or her work included in all eight of them.
Pissarro
