Talk:Impressionism

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Impressionism[change source]

Thank you for your timeline indicating the lengths of lives of the painters and how they overlapped.

It is a useful tool in knowing how the ages of the painters compared and how long they went one painting. However, it tells the reader almost nothing about Impressionism and doesn't belong right in the middle of a discussion of how the style came about and what the style consists of. It is a real bottom of the page list, info that someone might use, but not everybody needs if they want an understanding of the subject. you obviously didn't read the article, before you jammed something between the two parts of it, like a wedge.

Each one of those galleries of pictures had a heading that told the reader what aspect of Impression should be noted in that particular painting. Photographic viewpoint is particularly important, in the "Absinthe Drinker" which you removed from the gallery and put into the history. "Capturing a rural scene" while it happened was of significance in the Pissarro, which you removed to the top.

The end results of your edits were not good

  • The vitally important painting which gave its name to the movement "Impression: Sunrise", had to share space with a not very well known painting by a lesser-known artist, which simply distracted..
  • The Corot, not an Impressionist work but belonging in the history and only the history got pushed downwards, away from the part of the History where Corot and his influence was mentioned.
  • The Manet, "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe", an Impressionist painting mentioned in the History because of its Historic Importance got shoved downwards and out of place because of the two paintings that you moved out of the gallery. It is quite obvious that you didn't read the History before you put the Pissarro and the Degas into that section.
  • The galleries all ended up odd lengths , which you tried to juggle, but it turned out looking bad. The "Festival in Tunisia" obviously fits into the "capturing the scene" gallery more than the "Seeing like a camera" gallery.

If you look at the galleries (I mean really look) you will see that they are arranged with as much care for colour and content as if they were arranged on the wall of a real gallery, or in the pages of a well-produced artbook.

If you have shoved timelines into the middle of the content of other articles, then it's almost certainly a bad place to put them, and they need putting where they don't disrupt the content. Amandajm (talk) 12:47, 16 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]