AMERICAN BEAUTY AND FRENCH IMPRESSIONISM.
In August 1914 France was going to war. When general mobilization orders for WWI were announced, the French film industry was already retreating from the American cinematic establishment. Large companies were no longer able to produce films in the number or scale that had previously been achieved. A vacuum of sorts opened up which was filled by smaller, independent companies that were often more willing to experiment artistically and risk innovative methods and tactics. Unlike traditional big budget productions, which often incorporated several reels and focused on heroic, historic, or comedic subjects, these films were shorter and had a strong psychological focus. Out of this focus on inner life came many of the most advanced strategies of representation and narration yet seen in French film, including extraordinary lighting, framing, and editing techniques. These films continued to evolve through the 1910s and into the 20s, when the experiments of such avant-garde filmmakers as Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein, and Germaine Dulac created Impressionist film. (http://www.paloaltoonline.com. 01/03/03).
Between 1918 and 1928, in a series of extraordinary films, the younger directors more common to this new style, experimented with cinema in ways that posed an alternative to the dominant Hollywood formal principles. These directors used emotion as the heart of their work and intimate psychological narrative dominated their filmmaking practice' (Bordwell, David. "Film Art- p.453). The difference between French Impressionism and Hollywood cinema, where psychological causes were also paramount, was the style's interest in giving narration considerable psychological depth, revealing the workings of a character's consciousness. Also unique to Impressionist films was its manipulation of plot time and subjectivity. Flashbacks were a common feature; sometimes the bulk of a film would be one flashback or a series of them.
Impressionism was generated to capture a response or feeling for the viewer. The style of Impressionism had a focus on the momentary effect of light, nature, and movement. Post-Impressionism was the reaction to Impressionism. ... His father, Clovis, who was a journalist died on the journey to South America. ... Eventually he returned to France as he served in the merchant marine and French navy. ...
These stages are categorized into Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Modernism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Surrealism. ... American realist paintings include the honest, matter-of-fact portraits by Thomas Eakans, William Sidney Mount. ... Impressionism is a movement in painting that originated in France in the 19th century. ... An example is from French painter Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte . ... From realism to impressionism, post-impressionism to modernism, cubism to futurism, and constructivism to surrealism, from these we h...
The major influences on Australian photography were the European Pictorialists who emulated the styles of the French impressionist's painters. Australia then attempted to emulate the highlights of Australian impressionism. ... Appendix 1 Modernism started in approximately 1930, images now contained bolder content, abstract beauty, clean crisp lines and geometrical shapes. ... American Photo Secessionists, Sydney Camera Circle, American and European Modernist Art Styles were already under the influence of this task. ...
The signals sent over a wire were developed into the telegraph, which the American Samuel Morse improved. ... In a short time, they had proliferated all over Europe and North America. ... France France industrialized more slowly. ... France did, however, increase production of coal and iron between 1820 and 1870, and mechanize textile production. ...
In the mid-nineteenth century, when Paris was undergoing change, the Académie des Beaux-Arts was in control of French art. The Académie ensured that they always preserved the traditional French standards with regard to the style of painting and content that was being produced. ... Edourd Manet is known for being the leader of the Impressionists and for bridging the gap between Realism and Impressionism. He was born on the 23 January 1832 in Paris, France. ... Kirchner's first public showing of his work was at the Armory Show, a first major exhibit of modern art in Ameri...
Second, foreign countries began to impose massive taxes on American film exports. ... Perhaps the earliest intellectual credence lent to the nascent medium came from the French Surrealists of the 1930s, all of whom appear to have been avid filmgoers. ... Beauty became, as one great practitioner observed, a form of truth -- to put it another way, anything described with sufficient beauty could conceivably be passed off as true. ... Yet as the most powerful and disciplined of twentieth-century poets found, truth is its own kind of beauty. ... This movement was the soil for Impressionism's f...
