Lesson Plan

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Painting an Impression

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Impressionists used new methods of mixing colors based on contemporary scientific writings about optics. This lesson plan explores the theory of optical color mixing, painting the same subject under different conditions of light, and the short choppy brushstrokes used by the Impressionists.

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