In this essay, I shall try to examine how great a role colour played in the evolution of Impressionism.
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In this essay, I shall try to examine how great a role colour played in the evolution of Impressionism. Impressionism in itself can be seen as a linkage in a long chain of procedures, which led the art to the point it is today. In order to do so, colour in Impressionism needs to be placed within an art-historical context for us to see more clearly the role it has played in the evolution of modern painting. In the late eighteenth century, for example, ancient Greek and Roman examples provided the classical sources in art. At the same time, there...
appear to deny the notion that artists at different periods can be involved with similar concerns but carry them out according to the visual language of their time. Impressionism is the exact opposite to ancient Greek art with its well-defined lines and extreme clarity. The sense of the boundless in Monet's work led some critics to describe his work as 'pantheist art' .

appear to deny the notion that artists at different periods can be involved with similar concerns but carry them out according to the visual language of their time. Impressionism is the exact opposite to ancient Greek art with its well-defined lines and extreme clarity. The sense of the boundless in Monet's work led some critics to describe his work as 'pantheist art' .
Pantheism, one could say, is consistent with scepticism and philosophic doubt. Greek religion was fixed and boundless; Impressionism was vague and boundless, and an art that expressed the prevailing thought and scientific progress of its time.
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