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TITLE: Impressionism

DESCRIPTION: Impressionists played with optical effects by breaking color down. Painted with DAB technique. Impressionism is art of middle class recreation / ordinary people NOT working. Manet(1832-1883); Monet (1840-1926), Renoir (1841-1919), Degas (1834-1917), Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). TWO 19TH CENTURY INVENTIONS: 1. PHOTOGRAPHY: Birth of photography = 1839, Niepce and Daguerre. 2.FORMULATION OF COLOR LAWS BY CHEVREUL = primaries, secondaries, complimentaries. Basic theory: juxtaposition of colors modifies their optical effect