To me, when computers are involved, art gets less personal and more manufactured.Īs far as timing, both Impressionistic and Algorithmic art was very contemporary considering their history. As far as pure art, I enjoy Impressionism style art much better than algorithmic art. Another example of this new Algorithmic art is Tree of Life by Jamy Sheridan. I would infer that it was created sometime in the mid-1990s. With the rise of the digital age, it is hard to know when and who truly made it. A good example of this is Octopod by Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen. This form of art was bridge between the Psychedelic art of the 1960s and the advancement of digital technologies of the modern age. In this form, a computer is used to create Psychedelic style art. With the rise of the technology age, a sub-form of Psychedelic art was created called Algorithmic art, or also Cyberdelic.
Symbolism, Surrealism, and Psychedelic art are all direct precursors of contemporary visionary art. This school is considered to be a strong and important catalyst for contemporary visionary art. Although this style of art was seen before, in 1946, the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism was established. Visionary art is a style of art that tries to transcend the audience from the physical world to better connect it to the spiritual or mystical world/themes. Lets contrast and compare impressionism with an even more contemporary style of art, Algorithmic art, a subset of Visionary art.
After all, this style of painting broke away from the Academy’s norm in almost every way. This would later help mold the name of this era. Lastly, paintings during the impressionist time were usually landscape based and not history painting. They looked like they were the first impression of an artist’s idea. Paintings seemed like a quick thought or sketch. Paintings during impressionism were not this way, at least not at first. Before, paintings were very polished and finished works seemed to be properly, well, finished. Another distinctive characteristic of impressionist paintings is the unfinished nature to them. A piece of work that exhibits both these qualities is Starry Night over the Rhone by van Gogh. In particular, The Starry Night, included the impression of twinkling stars. The same is true about post-impressionist paintings like Vincent van Gogh’s paintings. Impressionist paintings like Impression Sunrise, the lighting seems to reflect off the water in ripples making it seem like the water is moving. Impressionist paintings also exhibited the sense of a quickly changing atmosphere. The subjects of their paintings were usually outdoors with light reflecting off water or around and object or with some special aspect of lighting. Impressionist paintings, like Impression Sunrise, accentuated lighting. Lighting was always a theme of Impressionist paintings. Impressionist paintings had small and thin, yet visible brush strokes.
This work leaves such an impression that it would later basically invent the Impressionism style art of the late 19th century. I also like how the background is blended with shades of gray and oranges to blend the ships and the sunrise with the marine fog. I really like how, with the style of brush strokes, the waves look like they are moving. Paintings are more abstract and open up the audience’s mind a little more than before. For me, this is where starts becoming more contemporary and interesting. This painting and style of painting is so much different from anything we have seen before. My first impressions of Impression Sunrise are “Wow”. A fun fact of this piece is that it was actually stolen from the museum in 1985 and wasn’t recovered until 1990. The subject of the painting is the harbor of Le Havre in France. The work was created in 1872 and now resides in the Musee Marmottan Monet, a museum for many of Claude Monet’s works. Its dimensions are 48 cm high by 63 cm wide. Impression Sunrise is an oil-on-canvas painting. Claude Monet leaves quite the impression with his work, Impression Sunrise.