Listed below are some sunset paintings from the French Impressionists. If interested, look up these works and compare their style.
| Work of Art | ||
|---|---|---|
| Artist | Painting | Year |
| Claude Monet | The Riverbank at Le Petit Gennevilliers, Sunset | 1875 |
| Sunset on the Seine in Winter | 1880 | |
| The Church at Varengeville, against the Sunset | 1882 | |
| Willows at Sunset | 1889 | |
| Paul Cézanne | Judgment of Paris | 1864 |
| Camille Pissarro | Sunset | 1872 |
| Setting Sun and Fog, Eragny | 1891 | |
| Sunset, Rouen | 1898 | |
| Edouard Manet | The Athenauem - Boats at Seat, Sunset | 1868 |
| Sunset at Sea | 1879 | |
| Alfred Sisley | Sunset at Port Marley | 1876 |
| The Moret Bridge at Sunset | 1892 | |
An impressionist views the world in a series of colors and lights that suggest a certain form. For example,
imagine an actual sunset such as the one shown below.
An impressionists's mision is not to duplicate reality but convey an impression of a scene.
The next image represents my attempt to reproduce the impressionist style using an archaic paint program
- Paint Shop Pro version 6.
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.