Adept at impersonating others, Cumberbatch was referred to as the "New King of Celebrity Impressionists" by "Vulture" magazine. He has imitated celebrities on a number of chat shows, such as "The Graham Norton Show" on the BBC, "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on NBC, and in general interviews on channels such as MTV. His impersonations include Alan Rickman, Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, Tom Hiddleston, Michael Caine, Christopher Walken, Tom Holland, Bane, John Malkovich, Matthew McConaughey, Taylor Swift and Chewbacca.
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Benedict Cumberbatch | Impressionist
Adept at impersonating others, Cumberbatch was referred to as the "New King of Celebrity Impressionists" by "Vulture" magazine. He has imitated celebrities on a number of chat shows, such as "The Graham Norton Show" on the BBC Yes, he is adept at impersonating others, was referred to as the "New King of Celebrity Impressionists" by "Vulture" magazine Yes, was referred to as the "New King of Celebrity Impressionists" Adept at impersonating others, he was referred to as the "New King of Celebrity Impressionists" by "Vulture" magazine.
where did 12 years a slave take place
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Principal photography took place in New Orleans, Louisiana
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what is the film about?
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A story of a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
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mention a few of its marketing scenarios?
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During its marketing campaign, "12 Years a Slave" received unpaid endorsements by celebrities such as Kanye West and P. Diddy. In a video posted by Revolt, Combs urged viewers to see "12 Years a Slave" by stating: "This movie is very painful but very honest, and is a part of the healing process.
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where did the first screening happen?
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Telluride Film Festival
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when did such a festival start?
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The festival was started in 1974
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for the aforementioned film, where did the festival organized?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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in what style is the festival conducted?
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Each year, an artist is selected to produce the poster art for the festival. The sole requirement for the poster is that the word SHOW be featured.
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who composed the score for the aforementioned film?
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Hans Zimmer
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name a few accolades received by him?
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Lifetime Achievement Award, the Frederick Loewe Award
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mention a few works done by him in the 2020s?
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"No Time to Die", "Hillbilly Elegy" and  Major League Soccer released an anthem for its 25th season, which was composed by Zimmer.
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how did he start his career with?
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Zimmer began his career playing keyboards and synthesizers in the 1970s, with the band Krakatoa. He worked with the Buggles, a new wave band formed in London in 1977 with Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, and Bruce Woolley.
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who are the actors in the aforementioned film?
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Chiwetel Ejiofor,  Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, and Alfre Woodard feature in supporting roles.
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describe the third actor's image in society?
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He has since been called "The Thinking Woman's Crumpet" and has been a mainstay in numerous "Sexiest Man Alive" lists including those of "Empire" and "People". "Tatler" listed Cumberbatch in the "Most Eligible Bachelors in the United Kingdom"
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does he have a production company?
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Yes, SunnyMarch Ltd.
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is he known for his impression?
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Adept at impersonating others, Cumberbatch was referred to as the "New King of Celebrity Impressionists" by "Vulture" magazine. He has imitated celebrities on a number of chat shows, such as "The Graham Norton Show" on the BBC, "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on NBC, and in general interviews on channels such as MTV. His impersonations include Alan Rickman, Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, Tom Hiddleston, Michael Caine, Christopher Walken, Tom Holland, Bane, John Malkovich, Matthew McConaughey, Taylor Swift and Chewbacca.
Benedict Cumberbatch | Impressionist
The influence of visual Impressionism on its musical counterpart is debatable. Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel are generally considered the greatest Impressionist composers, but Debussy disavowed the term, calling it the invention of critics. Erik Satie was also considered in this category, though his approach was regarded as less serious, more musical novelty in nature. Paul Dukas is another French composer sometimes considered an Impressionist, but his style is perhaps more closely aligned to the late Romanticists. Musical Impressionism beyond France includes the work of such composers as Ottorino Respighi (Italy), Ralph Vaughan Williams, Cyril Scott, and John Ireland (England), Manuel De Falla and Isaac Albeniz (Spain), and Charles Griffes (America).
Impressionism | Music and literature
In the same year, "Country Life" magazine labelled him as one of its "Gentlemen of the Year".
Benedict Cumberbatch | Public image
Cumberbatch did not achieve international recognition until the first series of "Sherlock" in 2010. He has since been called "The Thinking Woman's Crumpet" and has been a mainstay in numerous "Sexiest Man Alive" lists including those of "Empire" and "People". "Tatler" listed Cumberbatch in the "Most Eligible Bachelors in the United Kingdom" in 2012. In the same year, Cumberbatch described a cyberstalking incident in which he discovered that someone had been live-tweeting his movements in his London home. Coming to terms with it, he said, it is "an ongoing process. To think that somebody knew everything I'd done in a day and told the rest of the world in real time!" His photograph taken at the Garrick Club by Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda was the cover of Moore's 2012 book "An English Room".
Benedict Cumberbatch | Public image
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor. A graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester, he continued his training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, obtaining a Master of Arts in Classical Acting. He first performed at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park in Shakespearean productions and made his West End debut in Richard Eyre's revival of "Hedda Gabler" in 2005. Since then, he has starred in the Royal National Theatre productions "After the Dance" (2010) and "Frankenstein" (2011). In 2015, he played the title role in "Hamlet" at the Barbican Theatre.
Benedict Cumberbatch | Introduction
This painting was exhibited at the last impressionist exhibition in 1882, but it went relatively unnoticed. The influence of the master of Caillebotte, Leon Bonnat, seen in the rendering of the face and the black suit, but the diagonal perspective (with the play of angle), the look of Richard Gallo and the decoration of arabesques and stripes of the fabric of the sofa, express the impressionist point of view of the artist.
Portrait of Richard Gallo | Description
The voices were provided by British impressionists including:
Spitting Image | Voices
The influential English critic Roger Fry credited the wider public's acceptance of the Impressionists, especially Claude Monet, to Bastien-Lepage. In his 1920 "Essay in Æsthetics", Fry wrote:
Jules Bastien-Lepage | Impact on the reception of Impressionism
In 2013, Cumberbatch was ranked fifth in the "Tatler"s "Most Fascinating People in Britain" list, higher than the Duchess of Cambridge and just below Queen Elizabeth II. "Entertainment Weekly" identified Cumberbatch as one of the "50 Coolest and Most Creative Entertainers" in Hollywood. He has also appeared on the covers of "GQ", "Time" and "The Hollywood Reporter"s "New A-list" issue. In 2014, Cumberbatch was included in "The Sunday Times" "100 Makers of the 21st Century", cited as this generation's Laurence Olivier." Film critic Roger Friedman stated that "Cumberbatch may be the closest thing to a real descendant of Sir Laurence Olivier." GQ identified him as one of the "100 Most Connected Men" in the UK in 2014.
Benedict Cumberbatch | Public image
"Ibéria" is the most popular of the three orchestral "Images" and itself forms a triptych within the triptych. Its sections are: Impressions of Spain inspired this music. Richard Langham Smith has commented on Debussy's own wish to incorporate ideas of juxtaposing elements of the visual arts in musical terms, including a quote from Debussy to Caplet from a letter of 26 February 1910: You can't imagine how naturally the transition works between 'Parfums de la nuit' and 'Le Matin d'un jour de fête. "Ça n'a pas l'air d'être écrit.
Images pour orchestre | II. "Ibéria" (1905–1908)
Nerella Venumadhav imitates world politicians, film artists, singers, poets, scenes from Shakespeare's plays, popular movies including musical notes. He imitates the nativity, general characters and natural and mechanical sounds. India has a colorful and impressive history of people who have made mimicry their profession and have become successful actors in the film industry with their skills of impression alone. For e.g. actor Jayaram, Sivakarthikeyan, Dileep.
Impressionist (entertainment) | In India
Impression, Sunrise (French: "Impression, soleil levant") is a painting by Claude Monet first shown at what would become known as the "Exhibition of the Impressionists" in Paris in April, 1874. The painting is credited with inspiring the name of the Impressionist movement. "Impression, Sunrise" depicts the port of Le Havre, Monet's hometown. It is now displayed at the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris.
Impression, Sunrise | Introduction
Many of today's Presidential impressionists have been influenced by Vaughn Meader, whose 1962 impersonations of John F. Kennedy on the album "The First Family" made him famous. Impressionists are a major part of animation; many film and television cartoons (especially adaptations of franchises) used impressions of famous celebrities of the era. Voice actors who are or were known for their celebrity impressions include Daws Butler, Mel Blanc, Don Messick, Maurice LaMarche, Tress MacNeille, James Arnold Taylor and Rob Paulsen.
Impressionist (entertainment) | In North America
Charles-François Daubigny ( , , ; 15 February 181719 February 1878) was one of the painters of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of impressionism. He was also a prolific printmaker, mostly in etching but also as one of the main artists to use the cliché verre technique.
Charles-François Daubigny | Introduction
He played 1920s aristocrat David Scott-Fowler to commercial and critical success. The play won four Olivier Awards including Best Revival. He acted in Danny Boyle's "The Children's Monologues", a theatrical charity event at London's Old Vic Theatre on 14 November 2010 which was produced by Dramatic Need. In February 2011, Cumberbatch began playing, on alternate nights, both Victor Frankenstein and his creature, opposite Jonny Lee Miller, in Danny Boyle's stage production of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" at the Royal National Theatre. "Frankenstein" was broadcast to cinemas as a part of National Theatre Live in March 2011. Cumberbatch achieved the "Triple Crown of London Theatre" in 2011 when he received the Olivier Award, Evening Standard Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for his performance in "Frankenstein".
Benedict Cumberbatch | Theatre
Usually the most "impressive" aspect of the performance is the vocal fidelity to the target – usually a politician or a famous person. Props may also be employed, such as glasses or hats, but these are now considered somewhat old-fashioned and cumbersome: the voice is expected to carry the act.
Impressionist (entertainment) | Introduction
"The Hollywood Reporter"s Todd McCarthy reported that the undeniable highlight of the film was Cumberbatch, "whose charisma, tellingly modulated and naturalistic array of eccentricities, talent at indicating a mind never at rest and knack for simultaneously portraying physical oddness and attractiveness combine to create an entirely credible portrait of genius at work". Critic Roger Friedman wrote at the end of his review, "Cumberbatch may be the closest thing we have to a real descendant of Sir Laurence Olivier".
The Imitation Game | Critical response
He "acted as a father figure not only to the Impressionists" but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin.
Camille Pissarro | Introduction
Whilst not calling himself an impressionist Brydon says he "started out as an impressionist" but will "bristle" when some describes him as such. His impressions include Sir Alec Guinness, James Dean, Michael J. Fox, Richard Burton, Sir Tom Jones, Sir Michael Caine, Mick Jagger and Ronnie Corbett. He is also noted for his "Small Man in A Box" impression.
Rob Brydon | Career
This term "impression" also alludes to the effect the paintings produce on the viewer, and the feelings they evoke.
Jean-Pierre Rives | Art
Works by these artists are sometimes casually referred to as Impressionism, despite their remoteness from Impressionist practice. The influence of the French Impressionists lasted long after most of them had died. Artists like J.D. Kirszenbaum were borrowing Impressionist techniques throughout the twentieth century.
Impressionism | Associates and influenced artists
Based on David Bordwell's family resemblance model: I. Camerawork A. Camera distance: close-up (as synecdoche, symbol or subjective image)
French impressionist cinema | Stylistic paradigm
Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel are two leading figures in impressionism, though Debussy rejected this label (in a 1908 letter he wrote "imbeciles call [what I am trying to write in "Images"] 'impressionism', a term employed with the utmost inaccuracy, especially by art critics who use it as a label to stick on Turner, the finest creator of mystery in the whole of art!") and Ravel displayed discomfort with it, at one point claiming that it could not be adequately applied to music at all. Debussy's impressionist works typically "evoke a mood, feeling, atmosphere, or scene" by creating musical images through characteristic motifs, harmony, exotic scales (e.g., whole-tone and pentatonic scales), instrumental timbre, large unresolved chords (e.g., 9ths, 11ths, 13ths), parallel motion, ambiguous tonality, extreme chromaticism, heavy use of the piano pedals, and other elements.
Impressionism in music | History
His art has an impressionist quality which captures "the fleeting impressions of his surroundings." He first encountered such landscapes as a child evacuee during the Blitz. The powerful contrast to his home in London created an enduring love for it. He lives in Rye, near Ashford, Kent. In a review for the BBC, Andrew Walker said:
Frederick Cuming (artist) | Life and art
This prelude is an example of Debussy's musical impressionism in that it is a musical depiction of, or allusion to, an image or idea. Debussy quite often named his pieces with the exact image that he was composing about, like "La Mer", "Des pas sur la neige", or "Jardins sous la pluie". In the case of the two volumes of preludes, he places the title of the piece at the end of the piece, either to allow the pianist to respond intuitively and individually to the music before finding out what Debussy intended the music to sound like, or to apply more ambiguity to the music's allusion.
La cathédrale engloutie | Musical impressionism
In 2014 "Time" magazine included him in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2015 he was appointed a CBE in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to the performing arts and to charity.
Benedict Cumberbatch | Introduction
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, prior to the advent of high quality recording, animal and bird impressionists were popular on stage as entertainers. Some prominent performers included Charles Crawford Gorst (USA), Charles Kellogg, Joe Belmont, Edward Avis, Alec Shaw and Percy Edwards (UK).
Impressionist (entertainment) | Bird impressionists
Impressionism started in France as a reaction, led by Claude Debussy, against the emotional exuberance and epic themes of German Romanticism exemplified by Wagner. In Debussy's view, art was a sensuous experience, rather than an intellectual or ethical one. He urged his countrymen to rediscover the French masters of the 18th century, for whom music was meant to charm, to entertain, and to serve as a "fantasy of the senses" . Other composers associated with impressionism include Maurice Ravel, Albert Roussel, Isaac Albéniz, Paul Dukas, Manuel de Falla, Charles Martin Loeffler, Charles Griffes, Frederick Delius, Ottorino Respighi, Cyril Scott and Karol Szymanowski .
20th-century classical music | Impressionism
Ben Brantley of "The New York Times" was negative, calling it "undernourished" and its stars "ill-used". "Entertainment Weekly", however, gave the play a B and wrote that, "["Impressionism"] practices the art of romantic comedy with a nice mix of pathos, intellect, and wit". "The New Yorker" was enthusiastic and thought the play "is as awkward as it is sublime", noting its "brazen sweetness" and "openhearted humor".
Impressionism (play) | Production history
Herman Sabbe, however, argues that "Stockhausen never strictly speaking composed punctually" . Eimert foresaw problems "because of the common term of "pointillism" [German "Pointillismus"] in French painting. It would wrongly be assumed that paintings by Seurat and his contemporaries were being transformed into music" . The confusion in French was immediate, as Stockhausen relates: I still remember how, in Paris, I threw around the expression "punctual music" as a term for my KREUZSPIEL, SPIEL for Orchestra, SCHLAGQUARTETT, and so forth. Pierre Boulez corrected me, ""Pointilliste, la musique pointilliste!"" and I said, ""Non, ponctuelle"." He replied: “What’s that, then? That’s not French at all, the word is "pointilliste"." So I explained: ""Non, il faut faire attention", or else people might think we are bringing up musical impressionism .
Punctualism | Introduction
Jacques Halbert defines himself this Fluxus and neo-Dadaist and often parodic posture of the figure of the artist as "a manifesto of good taste". In 2003, back in France, he exhibits at the Creux de l'enfer-Contemporary art center the "Wall of laughter" that records the laughter of his friends and fellow artists, with whom he worked during his American years.
Jacques Halbert | Performance art
He also proposed that;
Antonin Personnaz | 'Impressionist' photography
Critic Clayton Davis stated that it is a "performance for the ages ... proving he's one of the best actors working today". Foundas of "Variety" wrote that Cumberbatch's acting is "masterful ... a marvel to watch", Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" described it as "delicately nuanced, prickly and tragic" and Owen Gleiberman of the BBC proclaimed it an "emotionally tailored perfection". It is "a storming performance from Cumberbatch: you'll be deciphering his work long after the credits roll" declared Dave Calhoun of "Time Out". In addition, Claudia Puig of "USA Today" concluded in her review, "It's Cumberbatch's nuanced, haunted performance that leaves the most powerful impression".
The Imitation Game | Critical response
"I think great artists always change what we expect from art. And then there is the famous 'étonnez-moi'. In the conversation with Cocteau and Diaghilev and the Ballets russes which was a great moment where art met theatre, and there was this famous explanation, and they said 'étonnez-moi!' ['Astonish me!']."
Hans Ulrich Obrist | Quotes
Auberjonois was born in Valeyres-sous-Montagny, near Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, the son of Augusta Grenier and René Auberjonois (1872–1957), one of Switzerland's best-known post-Impressionist painters. He married into European (Napoleonic) royalty. His wife was Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline Murat (Paris, 13 November 1913 – New York City, 10 May 1986), a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte's sister Caroline and her husband Joachim Murat, King of Naples and King of Sicily. They married in November 1939. The couple's son, actor René Auberjonois, was born in 1940.
Fernand Auberjonois | Introduction
The central figures in the development of Impressionism in France, listed alphabetically, were:
Impressionism | Main Impressionists
In London he met Claude Monet, and together they left for the Netherlands. Back in Auvers, he met Paul Cézanne, another important Impressionist. It is assumed that these younger painters were influenced by Daubigny.
Charles-François Daubigny | Biography
Musical Impressionism is the name given to a movement in European classical music that arose in the late 19th century and continued into the middle of the 20th century. Originating in France, musical Impressionism is characterized by suggestion and atmosphere, and eschews the emotional excesses of the Romantic era. Impressionist composers favoured short forms such as the nocturne, arabesque, and prelude, and often explored uncommon scales such as the whole tone scale. Perhaps the most notable innovations of Impressionist composers were the introduction of major 7th chords and the extension of chord structures in 3rds to five- and six-part harmonies.
Impressionism | Music and literature
Benedicto “Bong” Ducat (born May 6, 1957) is a Filipino impressionist painter. He is now teaching at the University of Santo Tomas College of Fine Arts and Design. He is noted for his renderings of plants, flowers and nature in droplet-like brush strokes and bright colors. In college, Ducat won the University of Santo Tomas Benavides Civic Award.
Benedicto Ducat | Introduction
It was a harsh criticism that upset the sensitive Stott but it confirms that the impressionistic representation of art remained controversial and radical to many art critics of the period. In general there was a lack of a positive response to the young French-trained artists, judging by a selection of critical notices that they garnered amongst the art establishment of the time. The same antagonism that had been pointed at Bastien-Lepage, Clausen and, La Thangue in the early 1880s was still prevalent for their acolytes.
Edward Stott | Return to England
Ravel wrote, "this impressionism is certainly very different from that of present-day composers...Mr. Fanelli's impressionism derives more directly from Berlioz." He added that Fanelli's alleged priority does not in any way diminish the achievements of later composers: "the investigations of the young Fanelli could not have diminished those of his colleagues...It is peculiar that these investigations suddenly assume importance because their embryo is discovered in a work written 30 years ago." Other composers linked to impressionism include Lili Boulanger, Isaac Albéniz, Frederick Delius, Paul Dukas, Alexander Scriabin, Manuel de Falla, John Alden Carpenter, Ottorino Respighi, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, and Federico Mompou.
Impressionism in music | History
The impressionist painter Camille Pissarro made it famous through many paintings which are present nowadays in the most famous art galleries in the world.
Pontoise | History
Impressionism is an art movement. Impressionism or Impressionist may also refer to:
Impressionism (disambiguation) | Introduction
Doura has expressed that he feels a "post-impressionist" but in the 21st century.
Miguel Doura | Style and subject
Yet he was able to work alongside the other artists on equal terms due to his youthful temperament and creativity. Another writer said of him that "he has unchanging spiritual youth and the look of an ancestor who remained a young man".
Camille Pissarro | French Impressionism
What lessons are our young artists going to receive from now on? They'll all start to do Impressionism! Ah! these people believe they are painting nature, nature so admirable in all its manifestations! What pretension! Nature is not for them! This Monet, do you remember his cathedrals? And that man used to know how to paint! Yes, I've seen good things by him, but now! Similarly he objected to the Manet memorial exhibition at the École des Beaux Arts in 1884. But he did attend the opening, after which he paid Manet the backhanded compliment that the exhibition was "not so bad as I thought."
Jean-Léon Gérôme | Gérôme and Impressionism
had six and the La Cresenta portrait painter F. Seymour Thomas had four.
Tonal Impressionism | Artists in the Exhibition
— Everybody says his only merit is that he bears your name."
Nikolaus Johann van Beethoven | Personal impressions
The development of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous styles in other media that became known as impressionist music and impressionist literature.
Impressionism | Introduction
Yet his next portraits are in rather subdued colours, using different black or purple gradations contrasting with light colours: "Jeanne and Marguerite Schlobach" (1884), "Octave Maus" (1885), "Camille Van Mons" (1886), "Marguerite Van Mons" (1886) (to be compared with "Portrait of Gabrielle Braun" (1886) by Fernand Khnopff). He saw the works of the impressionists Monet and Auguste Renoir at the show of "Les XX" in 1886. He was deeply impressed. He experimented with this technique, as can be seen in "Woman with Japanese album" (1886). This impressionist influence became prominent in his paintings "Madame Picard in her Loge" (1886) and "Madame Oscar Ghysbrecht" (1886) (painted in a palette of bright colours).
Théo van Rysselberghe | Impressionism
Alden Weir, Willard Metcalf, and 11 oil paintings by Childe Hassam. Among the later Impressionist works are paintings by William Glackens, Ernest Lawson, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Louis Ritman, Richard Emil Miller, and Maurice Prendergast.
New Britain Museum of American Art | Collection
Pierné wrote several operas, choral and symphonic pieces as well as a good deal of chamber music. His most famous composition is probably the oratorio "La Croisade des enfants" based on the book by Marcel Schwob. Also notable are such shorter works as his "March of the Little Lead Soldiers", which once enjoyed substantial popularity (not only in France) as an encore; the comparably popular "Marche des petits faunes" is from his ballet "Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied". His chamber work "Introduction et variations sur une ronde populaire" for saxophone quartet is a standard in the saxophone quartet repertoire. His discovery and promotion of the work of Ernest Fanelli in 1912 led to a controversy over the origins of impressionist music.
Gabriel Pierné | Music
According to the biography about him on the website, www.tfaoi.com, Gilbert spent nine years painting and exhibiting in Los Angeles. In 1929, he moved to the Monterey Peninsula and frequently held frequent one-man exhibitions at the Hotel Del Monte Art Gallery. He became widely known for his California landscapes and seascapes. Gilbert loved to paint the California Missions, especially Mission San Juan Bautista, whose bell tower, according to FADA.com, "received notoriety in the film "Vertigo", directed by Alfred Hitchcock." Gilbert also painted the Santa Barbara Mission.
Arthur Hill Gilbert | The impressionist emerges
Cumberbatch has narrated numerous documentaries for the National Geographic and Discovery channels. He has also read for several audiobooks, including "Casanova", "The Tempest", "The Making of Music", "Death in a White Tie", "Artists in Crime", and "Sherlock Holmes: The Rediscovered Railway Mysteries and Other Stories". He has done voice-overs for several commercials, including for major names Jaguar, Sony, Pimms, and Google+, performing the "Seven Ages of Man" monologue. For the 2012 London Olympics, he featured in a short film on the history of London, which began the BBC coverage of the opening ceremony. He made appearances for two Cheltenham Festivals, in July 2012 for Music when he read World War I poetry and prose accompanied by piano pieces and in October 2012 for Literature when he discussed "Sherlock" and "Parade's End" at The Centaur.
Benedict Cumberbatch | Narration
The sculptor Auguste Rodin is sometimes called an Impressionist for the way he used roughly modeled surfaces to suggest transient light effects. Pictorialist photographers whose work is characterized by soft focus and atmospheric effects have also been called Impressionists. French Impressionist Cinema is a term applied to a loosely defined group of films and filmmakers in France from 1919–1929, although these years are debatable. French Impressionist filmmakers include Abel Gance, Jean Epstein, Germaine Dulac, Marcel L’Herbier, Louis Delluc, and Dmitry Kirsanoff.
Impressionism | Sculpture, photography and film
Asch found in another experiment, that the order in which he presented the traits of a hypothetical person drastically influenced the impression formed by participants formed. For example, participants were read one of the following lists below: Series A starts with desirable qualities and ends with undesirable qualities, while the reverse is true for Series B. As a result of this slight difference, people perceive person A as someone who is an "able person who possesses certain shortcomings which, do not, however, overshadow his merits". But, people perceive person B as a "problem, whose abilities are hampered by his serious difficulties".
Solomon Asch | Order effects on impression formation
Although Scherrer is not well known today, eclipsed as he is by contemporary impressionists, he was well received in the early 20th century. A commentator for the "Journal d'Alsace" wrote: "Scherrer's is characterized by constant attention to form and composition. A powerful colourist, with the gift of a fruitful imagination, our famous countryman is one of the most highly esteemed artists of our times."
Jean-Jacques Scherrer | Reception
. . Seurat painted little dots: dots upon dots, in various colours and sizes, so that a tree would shimmer. . . . In terms of technique there is no connection between musical impressionism and pictorial impressionism. That’s why I am using the term "musique ponctuelle"." Both "musique ponctuelle" and "musique pointilliste" are still seen today. In fact, as early as 1922 the French word "pointillisme", evoking Seurat's painting technique, had been applied to music in this opposite sense of a "mosaic-like method of construction, an infinite accumulation of small and insignificant inorganic details", with reference to Arnold Schoenberg's operas, "Erwartung" and "Die glückliche Hand" .
Punctualism | Introduction
Cumberbatch, Adam Ackland, writer-director Patrick Monroe, action coordinator Ben Dillon, and production manager Adam Selves launched a production company, SunnyMarch Ltd., in late 2013. Their first project under the company's banner was the £87,000 crowd-funded short film "Little Favour", written and directed by Monroe with Cumberbatch in the lead role. The 30-minute action-thriller became internationally available on iTunes on 5 November 2013.
Benedict Cumberbatch | Production company
Aguilar-Agon's style is romantic impressionist. He describes being influenced initially by the Catalan Impressionist and European Surrealist movements, and subsequently by Parisian and German Bohemian societies. He specialises in landscapes, seascapes and still life.
Jorge Aguilar-Agon | Style
While the movement and the painting initially garnered controversy, Monet’s "Impression, Sunrise" gave rise to the name and recognition of the Impressionist movement, arguably exemplifying more than any other work or artist the Impressionist movement as a whole in style, subject, and influence.
Impression, Sunrise | Monet after "Impression"
The hazy scene of "Impression, Sunrise" strayed from traditional landscape painting and classic, idealized beauty. Paul Smith suggested that with this style, Monet meant to express "other beliefs about artistic quality which might be tied to the ideologies being consolidated by the emergent bourgeoisie from which he came." Loose brush strokes meant to suggest the scene rather than to mimetically represent it demonstrate the emergent Impressionist movement. In the wake of an emergent industrialization in France, this style expressed innovative individuality. Considering this, Smith claims that ""Impression, Sunrise" was about Monet’s search for spontaneous expression, but was guided by definite and historically specific ideas about what spontaneous expression was."
Impression, Sunrise | Style
In an interview with Maurice Guillemot for "La Revue Illustrée", Monet reflected on his handling of landscape like the port of Le Havre in consideration of the movement and the 1874 exhibition: "A landscape is only an impression, instantaneous, hence the label they’ve given us-- all because of me, for that matter. I’d submitted something done out of my window at Le Havre, sunlight in the mist with a few masts in the foreground jutting up from the ships below. They wanted a title for the catalog; it couldn’t really pass as a view of Le Havre, so I answered: "Put down "Impression"." Out of that they got impressionism, and the jokes proliferated..." Following 1874 and the rise of the Impressionist movement, Monet recalled "Impression, Sunrise" by naming other works with similar titles.
Impression, Sunrise | Monet after "Impression"
It is known he was an admirer of Claude Monet and others, as he told the German Kaiser – who hated the Impressionists – in 1909 that the Impressionists had "done a great deal to awaken modern art."
Adolfo Müller-Ury | Painter of roses and still lifes
Valette's paintings are Impressionist, a style that suited the damp fogginess of Manchester. Manchester Art Gallery has a room devoted to him, where the viewer may compare some of his paintings with some of Lowry's, and judge to what extent Lowry's own style was influenced by him and by French Impressionism generally.
Pierre Adolphe Valette | Life and career
During the 1880s several artists began to develop different precepts for the use of colour, pattern, form, and line, derived from the Impressionist example: Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. These artists were slightly younger than the Impressionists, and their work is known as post-Impressionism. Some of the original Impressionist artists also ventured into this new territory; Camille Pissarro briefly painted in a pointillist manner, and even Monet abandoned strict "plein air" painting. Paul Cézanne, who participated in the first and third Impressionist exhibitions, developed a highly individual vision emphasising pictorial structure, and he is more often called a post-Impressionist.
Impressionism | Post-Impressionism
"Circus", an unfinished work exhibited after his death, was barely noticed by critics or the general public.
Neo-Impressionism | Georges Seurat
Because the work predated the innovations of Maurice Ravel and Debussy there was speculation that either or both of them had seen the score in manuscript form. Ravel himself is widely reported to have commented "now we know where his [Debussy’s] impressionism comes from". However, a closer look at Ravel's published review reveals that he was speaking ironically and defending Debussy:Above all, the investigations of the young Fanelli could not have diminished those of his colleagues. [...] This noble courage, which consists of crushing the innovations of troublesome innovators with the innovations of their predecessors, has uncovered the source of Claude Debussy's impressionism in M.
Ernest Fanelli | Rumours
Impressionism in music was a movement among various composers in Western classical music (mainly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries) whose music focuses on mood and atmosphere, "conveying the moods and emotions aroused by the subject rather than a detailed tone‐picture". "Impressionism" is a philosophical and aesthetic term borrowed from late 19th-century French painting after Monet's "Impression, Sunrise". Composers were labeled impressionists by analogy to the impressionist painters who use starkly contrasting colors, effect of light on an object, blurry foreground and background, flattening perspective, etc. to make the observer focus his attention on the overall impression. The most prominent feature in musical impressionism is the use of "color", or in musical terms, timbre, which can be achieved through orchestration, harmonic usage, texture, etc.
Impressionism in music | Introduction
, son of the composer's friend Stephan von Breuning, gave this description of Johann to Alexander Wheelock Thayer: "His frame was not actually large, but was much larger than Ludwig's. His nose was large and rather long; his eyes were not evenly set, so that one got the impression he had a cast in one eye... In his clothing he played the well-to-do dandy, but that did not suit his bony, angular figure. He bore no resemblance whatever to his brother Ludwig." Count Moritz Lichnowsky, in the winter of 1822/23, said of Johann (during a conversation with Ludwig van Beethoven and recorded in the composer's conversation books): "Everyone makes a fool of him; we call him simply 'The Chevalier'.
Nikolaus Johann van Beethoven | Personal impressions
Montgomery was sketched in pastels by Richard Cosway.
Sir James Montgomery, 2nd Baronet | Artistic Recognition
Paul Signac remarked that the "Bathers" was painted ‘...[I]n great flat strokes, brushed one over the other, fed by a palette composed, like Delacroix’s, of pure and earthy colours. By means of these ochres and browns the picture was deadened and appeared less brilliant than the works the impressionists painted with a palette limited to prismatic colours. But the understanding of the laws of contrast, the methodical separation of elements—light, shade, local colour, and the interaction of colours—as well as their proper balance and proportion gave this canvas its perfect harmony.’ Less flatteringly, an anonymous reviewer of Durand-Ruel’s Impressionist Exhibition in New York City wrote in the newspaper "The Sun" that, “The great master, from his own point of view, must surely be Seurat whose monstrous picture of "The Bathers" consumes so large a part of the Gallery D.
Bathers at Asnières | Reception and history
He befriended Camille Pissarro whom he met through Paul Gachet, who together introduced him to other Impressionists. Over 1892-1893 he visited the collectors Georges Murat, Eugène Murer, Paul Durand-Ruel, Paul Gallimard, Eugène Blot and Jean-Baptiste Faure, who were all buying Impressionist art, despite the prevailing taste for the 'style pompier' of the École des Beaux-Arts. Like them he began to purchase works from his most innovative contemporaries, along with old masters like Franz Hals. In 1906 he acquired "Le Pont d'Argenteuil" by Claude Monet from Durand-Ruel for only 20 francs at time when the dealer was finding few buyers for Impressonist works.
Antonin Personnaz | Art collector
"What are your impressions of America?" (trying the toast) "Too dry." "What do you think of Beethoven?" "Don't bother me with those (sic!) amateurs. Of course I know the masters like Dempsey..." "Do you know Goethe's "Faust"?" "Mine is better!" ("Faust" meaning in German "fist".) "What about modern art?" "Götz von Berlichingen." Anna Maria is discovered and asks for an autograph just as a maid brings a visiting card from Professor Himmelhuber. The daughter is distraught, Ochsenschwanz meets her father in the living room. A thinly disguised Gaston has been observing; he talks Anna Maria into stripping to her long underwear and posing as the dummy on the new training machine he is delivering.
Schwergewicht | Synopsis
François Gall (22 March 1912, Hungary 9 December 1987, France) was a French modern impressionist painter.
François Gall | Introduction
The drama does not include several main impressionist artists such as Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt, Armand Guillaumin, Berthe Morisot and Alfred Sisley.
The Impressionists (TV series) | Missing artists
Although these cases illustrate the difficulty of assigning labels, the work of the original Impressionist painters may, by definition, be categorised as Impressionism.
Impressionism | Post-Impressionism
In "Ved Vejen", Bang has masterfully developed his impressionistic style. While recognizing that impressionism was first and foremost a trend in painting, he explained in a letter sent to Peter Nansen from Prague that he was trying to achieve the same style in literature: "Impressionistic is indeed the word. I am frantically striving to make every single impression clear and precise and distinctive, and so I never think about the whole" Jean-Claude Polet adds that while he owes much to Zola, Daudet and Maupassant, he channels naturalism into a quite unexpected direction, that of impressionism. His characters are revealed through their responses or a slight turn of phrase along the lines of the Norwegian Jonas Lie or the Russian Turgenev.
Ved Vejen | Themes
While he inherited initially the style of César Franck, his later work revealed a clear influence of impressionism.
Théo Ysaÿe | Biography
Others such as theorist Benjamin H. Bratton have speculated that the alleged reaction may have been caused by the projection being mistaken for a camera obscura by the audience which at the time would have been the only other technique to produce a naturalistic moving image. Whether or not it actually happened, the film undoubtedly astonished people unaccustomed to the illusion created by moving images.
L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat | Contemporary reaction
His portrait was painted by John Everett Millais.
Robert Pullar | Artistic recognition
Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of "movement" as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. Impressionism originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s. The Impressionists faced harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. The name of the style derives from the title of a Claude Monet work, "Impression, soleil levant" ("Impression, Sunrise"), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satirical review published in the Parisian newspaper "Le Charivari".
Impressionism | Introduction
Claude Roger-Marx remarked that he "catches fleeting poses, steals unconscious gestures, crystallises the most transient expressions". Although Bonnard avoided public attention, his work sold well during his life. At the time of his death his reputation had already been eclipsed by subsequent avant-garde developments in the art world; reviewing a retrospective of Bonnard's work in Paris in 1947, Christian Zervos assessed the artist in terms of his relationship to Impressionism, and found him wanting. "In Bonnard's work," he wrote, "Impressionism becomes insipid and falls into decline." In response Henri Matisse wrote "I maintain that Bonnard is a great artist for our time and, naturally, for posterity." Bonnard was described, by his own friend and historians, as a man of "quiet temperament" and one who was unobtrusively independent.
Pierre Bonnard | Critical reception and legacy
Here is the list of the scenes from an official list:
Impressions de France | Scene list
Louis Leroy, for "Le Charivari", is often quoted in his review on Monet's work. His article "The Impressionist Exhibition" is written as a dialogue from the imaginary perspective of an old-fashioned painter, shocked at the works of Monet and his associates:
Impression, Sunrise | Criticism
A deeply religious man, this would often produce a state akin to meditation and the degree of his concentration is clearly visible in his attention to small details. The influence of Impressionism is obvious, but his technique was more closely related to Pointillism. Between 1916 and 1922, he exhibited regularly at the "Kunsthandel Gerbrands" in Utrecht. After 1918, he lived in Rhenen, where he died. Major retrospectives have been held at the Stedelijk Museum in 1929 and, more recently, at the Museum Flehite in 2012.
Jan Adam Zandleven | Biography
The work portrays Édouard Manet sitting at his easel, with Zacharie Astruc sitting at his side, Otto Scholderer, Auguste Renoir, wearing a hat, Émile Zola, with glasses in hand, Edmond Maître, Frédéric Bazille, with tartan trousers, and Claude Monet.
A Studio at Les Batignolles | Description
Experience of post-Impressionism (Pointillism) combines with computer graphics techniques (raster graphics), which in turn have links to the visual effects of his current high-tech constructions (microwave towers).
Alfio Giuffrida | Works
Lisuart und Dariolette, oder Die Frage und die Antwort ("Lisuart and Dariolette, or The Question and the Answer") is a 'romantisch-comische Oper' by the German composer Johann Adam Hiller. The libretto was by Daniel Schiebeler based on "La fée Urgèle ou Ce qui plaît aux dames" by Charles Simon Favart, itself derived from The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Lisuart und Dariolette | Introduction
3). Later came precursors of modern classical music. Érik Satie was a key member of the early-20th-century Parisian avant-garde, best known for his "Gymnopédies". Francis Poulenc's best known works are his piano suite "Trois mouvements perpétuels" (1919), the ballet "Les biches" (1923), the "Concert champêtre" (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the opera "Dialogues des Carmélites" (1957), and the "Gloria" (1959) for soprano, choir and orchestra. Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy are the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music. Debussy was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed.
France | Music
Inspired by the style of his master, Gutmann is the author of several nocturnes, and twelve studies, studies characteristics that seem to announce the coming of Impressionism (two of his studies are called "Sea," and "The Storm," and are respective replicas of the study No. 1, Op. 25, by Chopin, and the "Révolutionnaire"). All his works have been quite popular in their time; but faded thereafter.
Adolphe Gutmann | Works
Obvious successors of Romanticism include the Pre-Raphaelite movement and the Symbolists. But Impressionism, and through it almost all of 20th-century art, is also firmly rooted in the Romantic tradition. Representative artists: George Stubbs, William Blake, John Martin, Francisco Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, Eugène Delacroix, Sir Edwin landseer, Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner
Artistic revolution | <a href="Romanticism">Romanticism</a>
Van Rysselberghe, as a Belgian, was imbued with the portrait tradition of Dutch and Flemish masters, and as a 19th-century artist, he was attuned to the artistic tastes of the bourgeoisie. In 1886, Van Rysselberghe visited the Impressionist exhibition in Paris. There, he discovered the work of the French artist George Seurat, and thereupon embraced Neo-Impressionism. The Pointillists used a technique in which small, distinct dots of primary color are applied in patterns to form an image.
Maria Sèthe at the Harmonium | Seurat’s influence and van Rysselberghe's style
Turner and John Constable. In his long and productive life, he painted over 3,000 paintings. Though often credited as a precursor of Impressionist practice, Corot approached his landscapes more traditionally than is usually believed. Compared to the Impressionists who came later, Corot's palette is restrained, dominated with browns and blacks ("forbidden colors" among the Impressionists), along with dark and silvery green. Though appearing at times to be rapid and spontaneous, usually his strokes were controlled and careful, and his compositions well-thought out and generally rendered as simply and concisely as possible, heightening the poetic effect of the imagery. As he stated, "I noticed that everything that was done correctly on the first attempt was more true, and the forms more beautiful."
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot | Art and technique
In 1887 he painted some impressionist seascapes at the Belgian coast : "Het Zwin at high tide" (1887) Because of his growing ties with the Parisian art scene, Octave Maus sent him as a talent scout to Paris to look out for new talent for the next exhibitions of "Les XX".
Théo van Rysselberghe | Impressionism
Because this piece is based on a legend, it can be considered program music.
La cathédrale engloutie | Musical impressionism
Renoux employed a palette based in yellow-orange and ochre in which he painted street scenes admired for their understated beauty and agility of hand. Renoux liked painting the human form, frequently with members of his family as sitters. But he was shy and disliked sketching in the open streets. He often chose some obscure corner from which to draw, which explains the interesting and unusual perspective of some of his paintings. As The Times of London wrote, "He might in the broad sense of the term be called Impressionist, being concerned with the open-air effect, taking particular pleasure in the dapple of sunlight on tree shaded avenues.
Jules Ernest Renoux | Style
According to Hugounet, Rouffe was determined that "his art should not remain imprisoned in the bands of tradition. He set himself the task of enlarging it and making it enter the current of modern thought, thereby realizing the program traced by Champfleury in his book on the Funambules." Hugounet goes on to remark that Rouffe's work was an "eloquent albeit mute response to Francisque Sarcey, who reproached Paul Legrand for his wish to express in pantomime that which lay outside its domain—ideas." Like Legrand, Rouffe often performed in character costume, setting aside Pierrot's white blouse and trousers, thereby earning him the epithet ""l'Homme Blanc"".
Charles Deburau | Louis Rouffe
He enjoyed watching actors work, and he enjoyed knowing them. (He loved Anne Bancroft, hated Audrey Hepburn, and said that he had seen "Grand Illusion" ten times.)"
J. D. Salinger | Later publicity
He did so by the use of flowing washes of harmonious color and by holding detail to a minimum so as to sustain unity across a pictorial surface. Avoiding strong contrasts and abrupt spatial transitions, he favored soft tonal gradations and measured distances. The influences of impressionism on his art may be seen in his frequent use of animated and summary brushwork to express transitory aspects of nature and in his tendency to incorporate the tone of his paper’s reserves in a work as means of adding the sparkle of sunlight to a scene. Overall his art is characterized by an understated restraint, as he sought to emphasize the beauty of his subjects over a display of his technical versatility."
Sears Gallagher | Reputation and assessment