THE URBAN TENDENCY IN IMPRESSIONIST PAINTING

Abstract

Urbanism is a human tendency towards development, cognitive growth, progress and creativity in various fields, and it has an active presence in the physiological structure of humans in general and the artist in particular. Urbanism is an obsession that expresses the artist’s interest in lifestyle, movement and daily interaction. The research study included four chapters: (The first chapter) contained the methodological framework of the research, which consisted of the research problem, its importance, and its goal represented by (revealing the urban tendency in Impressionist painting). (The second chapter) dealt with the theoretical framework of the research, which consists of three sections: (The research study The first) aesthetic approaches to the concept of urbanity, and (the second section) included representations of the city in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and Classicism, and (the third section) dealt with urban features in contemporary European painting. (Chapter Three) included research procedures that consisted of a research community of (20) models, and the researcher used the structural (descriptive) analysis method in analyzing (the research sample) of (3) pictorial models of Impressionist school paintings. (Chapter Four) discussed the research results and conclusions, and the study also reached some recommendations and proposals