Sisley
1839-1899
French Impressionist Painter
His Style Was Influenced by the following Painters - Manet, Cézanne, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Mary Cassatt, and Armand Guillaumin.
Education: he
studied under Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre and Jean-Baptiste-Camille
Corot
Cause of Death - cancer
Mediums - oil on canvas and watercolor on paper
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About the Artist
Alfred Sisley was one of the most glorious French impressionist painters of all time.
Sisley was never troubled by aesthetic controversies, or in theories of painting. It was just him and the natural environment. He concentrated on the natural environment: the French countryside, river scenes, country lanes, woodland paths, seascapes, gardens, and streams. He focused on capturing the overall impression of a scene through effects created by using light and color in diverse ways. Sisley liked to work outside, developing a looser brushstroke and lighter palette, working in the characteristic impressionist style for which he is best known. He believed that light was inseparable from the object it illuminated, so to capture the light at a precise moment, he worked from direct observation. Sisley executed this emotional style with bold strokes and graceful applications of color.
In the early part of his career Sisley, along with the other young Impressionist painters, became loathed for his art - at the time Impressionism was reviled by most art critics and public alike, as scandalous and unseemly and avant-garde.
Alfred Sisley Art Quotations
Every picture shows a spot with which the
artist himself has fallen in love. -- Alfred Sisley
The Principal Impressionist Painters
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