Modern Art
TBetween 1850 and 1900 there were art academies, where you could learn to become a painter. There you had to exactly the real reacts/paint. When you were done with the academy, you weren't allowed to make what you wanted. The teachers and directors of the academies determined what art should look like and what to paint. If you didn't keep to that, you wouldn't get big orders, for example, from the church, the rich and the government. At the exhibitions you didn't get to hang at all.
Fortunately, at that time there were some artists who were stubborn, courageous and rebellious. They wouldn't let themselves be controlled and made art in their own way. They just organized exhibitions themselves. The paintings were not realistic, but just how the painters wanted it themselves. Those were the first modern artists. Modern Art was born.
In 1874 there was also a painting by Monet on such a modern exhibition. The painting was called Impression, sunrise. Monet didn't care about objects, but the colors you see did. It's about the first impression, the impression. Outside in nature, colors change so quickly, that you do not have time to paint accurately and finely. He therefore painted quickly and coarsely, so that he could quickly put the colours he saw at that time on the canvas.
A lot of people thought that was sloppy, messy and easy. The artists who painted in this style were mockingly named after this painting by Monet: The Impressionists. Since then, that coarse and fast style has been called Impressionism. The first indent-style.
Do you, like the people back then, think it's a whiff?
