Explaining Impressinist Painting

Abstract

This article explains Impressionist painting in the context of the Theory of the Character of Production, an involuntary and unconscious psychological orientation useful to work which determines the peculiarities of the social existence of man; this is, his artistic, religious, moral, legal and philosophical manifestations, together with his structures of character, habits and attitudes. Impressionism is the French painting movement that set the basis for the modernity of art. All its characteristics, themes aesthetic style, psychology of characters, together with the subjective nature of the impressionist artist can be explained using this theory. The purpose is to explain the postimpressionism and neoimpressionism movements that came after Impressionism; emotion geared towards the Character of Production of these artistic movements is defined as instability-joy in Impressionism; stability-deception/evasion in postimpressionism; and, stability/neutralization-deception/evasion in neoimpressionism.