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Definition:
A 19th century French school of art, Impressionism was more concerned with representing
the "impression" some object or scene creates on a viewer rather than what the object
"really" is. Thus, a painting of the same object or scene would be done in totally
different ways if the atmosphere, lighting, etc. of the situation were to change because
such a change would necessarily create a different impression on a viewer.
The school of Impressionism got its name from a 1872 painting by Claude Monet called "Impression: Sunrise" in which Monet attempted to capture his impression of a sunrise through the abstract use of color and blurred outlines.
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What is Aesthetics?
In philosophy, aesthetics is the study of beauty and taste, whether in the form of the comic, the tragic or the sublime. Aesthetics has traditionally been part of other philosophical pursuits like the investigation of epistemology or ethics. However, it started to come into its own and become a more independent pursuit under Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who saw aesthetics as a unitary and self-sufficient type of human experience.What is Philosophy?
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