Monet/Space

Impressionist artists contributed to a new style of painting which stressed the effects of _____ on subject matter.

Impressionists tried to reproduce this effect by using quick, short _____.

When viewed from a distance, these dabs of color were blended together in the _____ to create the desired effect.

Impressionists preferred an informal, casual arrangement n their paintings. This "_____" approach to composition added a lively, more realistic appearance to their paintings.

In 1874, Claude Monet exhibited a picture entitled _____. It was this painting that gave the new movement a name.

For months, Monet worked in a field near _____ painting the same haystacks.

Monet painted the haystacks at all hours of the day. Sometimes the sun was so brilliant that the outlines of the haystacks became blurred and seemed to vibrate. Monet tried to capture this effect in his pictures, painting exactly _____ rather than what he knew to be there.

Monet's painting of the west façade of _____ shows the famous building bathed in bright, shimmering sunlight. It is one of twenty-six paintings of this same church produced by this artist.

Day after day during three winters, Monet painted the doorways and towers of the cathedral. At the end of the second winter, he wrote, "What I have undertaken is very difficult. I have not the _____ to pick up my canvases. The more I continue, the more I fail."

In his Rouen Cathedral paintings, he uses _____ colors--blues and oranges.

The Element of Design Space refers to the area _____ an object or objects.

Two-dimensional art exists on a flat surface, so if something looks three-dimensional--it is an _____! Even the most realistic paintings or photographs are illusions. Two-dimensional artists use a number of "tricks" for creating the illusion of depth in their art.

To create the illusion of depth in 2-dimensional art, larger objects appear _____.

To create the illusion of depth in 2-dimensional art, smaller objects appear _____ away.

Partially covering one shape or object with another makes the one in _____ appear closer.