Question: Discuss the impact of scientific discovery and research on the ideas and work of an artist of your choice.
Answer: There is little doubt that Impressionism is the best known, yet paradoxically the least understood movement in the history of art. It was first founded by a group by the name of the ‘Anonymous Society of Artists’ in 1874. In various coalitions it mounted eight group exhibitions between this year and 1886. Included as core members were celebrated masters such as Monet, Pissaro et al. However, many other artists were also associated with this groundbreaking movement to varying degrees, one such being the likes of Georges Seurat (1859-1891).
Despite this movement being acceptable as an historical description, its definition has no real aesthetic style or character. Seurat, however soon became a pioneer of his own distinctive mode of Impressionism, that which developed as Neo-Impressionism or Scientific Impressionism as preferred by its practitioners....(short extract)
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- Subject: Creative Arts and Design
- Course: Creative Arts and Design General
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 2678
- Date submitted: March 06, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 919
