Chapter Summary

After reading Chapter 22, you should be able to:

• Identify the works and define the terms in the chapter.

• Explain the "Realist" aspects of Impressionism.

• Explain what Monet meant by "Impressionism.

• Discuss the role of urban renewal in Paris and its effect on Impressionism.

• Describe the technique, style, and influence on Impressionism of Japanese woodblock prints from the Ukiyo-e school.

• Describe Manet's transition from Realism to Impressionism.

• Discuss the influence of photography on the Impressionist painters.

• Compare the iconography of Cassatt and Morisot with that of the male Impressionist painters.

• Discuss the American ex-patriot painters in the nineteenth century.

• Trace the evolution of the prominent brushstroke in Impressionism.

• Describe the Impressionist aspects of Rodin's sculpture.

• Take a side in Whistler's lawsuit against Ruskin and argue it.