Paint Impressionism

Master brushwork and deliver impact through strong colors and light | Beginner | Impressionism | Oil Painting | Loose

Learn Impressionism techniques by creating this Farm Countryside painting. For total beginner through advanced painters.

Learn Impressionism techniques by creating this Aspen Autumn painting. For total beginner through advanced painters.

Learn to paint a Cherry Blossom landscape in a loose acrylic painting style, much like Van Gogh's impressionist strokes.

Professor Richard Brettell creates a vivid, "virtual" museum through which to appreciate the genius and enduring accomplishments of the Impressionists: the men and women who, in a few short decades, forever changed the art of painting. Presented with these absorbing lectures are more than 200 vividly reproduced artworks for your study and enjoyment. Enjoy.

They appeared in a period of upheaval. They saw the rebuilding of Paris, the rise of industrialism, the ruin of the Franco-Prussian war. They displayed their startling and shocking works in a series of exhibitions from 1874 to 1886. And by the 1890s, this "loose coalition" of artists who rebelled against the formality of the French Academy had created the most famous artistic movement in history. "They" were the Impressionists, and Professor Brettell is your expert curator and guide to a movement that created a new, intensely personal vision of the world.