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Sisley was admitted to the Official Salon Exhibitions of 1866, 1868 and 1870. His paintings showed a keen interest in the colour of trees and buildings, and for the changing effects of light and clouds above a landscape. His style was sober, quiet and consistent. In 1870 he lightened his palette and began to use broken touches and strokes of juxtaposed colours. Barges on the St Martin Canal (1870, Oakar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur) is an example, showing how he depicted reflections on the surface of water by rapid strokes in the style begun by Monet and Renoir at La Grenouillere. Other early landscapes by Sisley include: Lane near a Small Town (1864, Kunsthalle, Bremen); Village Street in Marlotte (1866, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo); Women Going to the Woods (1866, Bridgestone Museum, Tokyo) and View of Montmartre from the Cite des Fleurs (1869, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble). These early views are sombre in tone, but displayed a detailed construction and a taste for broad areas of sky and ample spaces. In his still life painting, Heron with Wings Spread (1867, Musee d'Orsay), his subtle harmonies of tone are apparent.

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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 obser

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It was not until late in life (1897) that Sisley married his wife. Marie died of cancer in October of 1898, soon after they returned to France from their wedding in Wales. In January of 1899, Sisley himself was in poor health. He invited his good friend Monet to visit him, and while Monet was there, he asked him to care for his children. Sisley died a week later of throat cancer and was buried at Moret cemetery. A bust was erected in his memory.

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While Sisley's dedication to the Impressionist movement never faltered, his failure to sell paintings led him back to exhibiting at the Salon in the 1870's. Although the Salon Jury rejected him in 1867 and 1879, they accepted his paintings later in his career. Since he was unable to exhibit his work in an academic setting, Sisley exhibited his paintings at the first Impressionist show in 1874. The emerging group gathered at the photographer Nadar's studio, where Sisley exhibited five paintings. Louis Leroy, a critic for Charivari, was in attendance and coined the term Impressionism, which was originally used as derogatory term. Leroy called the artists "trouble-makers," who merely painted their impressions of things. Sisley continued to exhibit his work steadily between 1874 and 1890. He exhibited at most of the Impressionist shows, as well as at other art and corporate venues. In 1872 Sisley met Paul Durand-Ruel, a private art dealer who represented him until 1891 when Georges Petit replaced him.

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He received an allowance during the 1860s from his father to support his art, putting him in a much better position than many of his contemporaries.

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Following the death of his father, Sisley dedicated himself to painting, having to depend on his art to support his family financially for the first time. It was around this same time that Sisley's style matured. He began to exhibit his true potential as a colorist, as well as an ability to capture nature through the use of loose brushstrokes. Sisley's paintings from this time represent an impressive range of tones, while his ability to render the complex visual effects of light brings life to his landscapes. According to art historian Christopher Lloyd, Sisley's compositions are meticulously organized "bringing order to a world constantly in flux." Throughout his career, Sisley worked en plein air, painting directly onto a primed canvas, and he rarely ever retouched his compositions in the studio.

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Despite being one of the figureheads of Impressionism, he is overshadowed by some of his more famous contemporaries, such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In light of this, I wrote this post about Sisley's life and art.

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Late Years and Death It was not until late in life (1897) that Sisley married his wife. Marie died of cancer in October of 1898, soon after they returned to France from their wedding in Wales. In January of 1899, Sisley himself was in poor health.

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Alfred Sisley is one of Impressionism's most unjustly overlooked artists. This may perhaps be due to the fact that Sisley straddled two different cultures, having been born to English parents in France and later dividing his time between the two countries. As such, though he worked as one of the key figures in French Impressionism, he remained something of an outsider. Unlike many of his peers, who examined urban life, industrialization, and people, Sisley was almost exclusively a painter of landscapes, a subject from which he rarely strayed. What's more, there is a moodiness and distinct colorism in his works that suggest an influence from earlier periods of English and French art, especially the Barbizon school. As such, Sisley created his own unique brand of Impressionism that foreshadowed many of the new painting styles that would emerge in Europe after the turn of the 20th century.

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Alfred Sisley was born in Paris, the son of affluent British expatriates. His mother, Felicia Sell, was a music connoisseur, and his father, William Sisley, owned a lucrative business exporting artificial flowers and silk. Felicia and William were cousins, descended from a long line of English smugglers and tradesmen. Alfred was one of four children, one of whom - the eldest brother - died at a young age. Unfortunately, little is known about Alfred's adolescence before he was sent to London in 1857 to study for a career in commerce. While in London, Sisley is said to have spent much of his time visiting the exhibitions of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner at the National Gallery

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Alfred Sisley was born in Paris to affluent English parents; William Sisley was in the silk business, and his mother Felicia Sell was a cultivated music connoisseur. At the age of 18, Sisley was sent to London to study for a career in business, but he abandoned it after four years and returned to Paris.

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"And though the artist must remain the master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of liveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist."

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Painted in 1847
Painted using oil paints
The Impressionism period
Foreground:water, someone in a boat, and more boats
Middle ground: the bridge,houses,trees,a shed
Background:the sky, trees,clouds

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The Impressionists loosened their brushwork and lightened their palettes to include pure, intense colors. They abandoned traditional linear perspective and avoided the clarity of form that had previously served to distinguish the more important elements of a picture from the lesser ones. For this reason, many critics faulted Impressionist paintings for their unfinished appearance and seemingly amateurish quality

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Impressionism originated with a group in Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s.

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After  briefly studying bussiness in London, He trained at Paris famous Ecole design Beaux-arts He painted one of his earliest works, lone near a small town,in middle 1860s

Between the late 1970s and the early 2000s, sisley's painting 'Allee des peupilers de moret was stolen on three occasions from the Musee Des Beaux-Arts

Quote- "the animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting "

Alfred sisly received little acclaim during his lifetime. However, he was one of the founding artists of French impressionism.  His early paintings provide a line between the neo-impressionism such as the works of Edmund Monet and pierre-aguste Renoir both good friends of sisley.

Although his wealthy English parents had origionally intended him for commerce , Sisly began painting as an amateur and I'm Charles Gleyre's studio in 1862 he began his associatio  with claude Monet,pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Jean-Fredrick Bazille. The franco-German war of 1870 to 1871 brought financial ruin to the sisley family and caused sisley to flee temporarily to London . AT This period of crisis he decided to make painting his full time career because of this the rest of his life was a constant struggle against poverty and it was only after his death that his painting rose in price

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Born on October 30,1839,Paris,France.
Died on January 29,1899,Moret-sur-Loing of throat cancer.
Periods:Impressionism,Post-Impressionism,Realism.
Children:Pierre Sisley,Jeanne Sisley.
Known for:Painting.
He painted landscapes and en plein air.
Education:Marc-Charles-Gabriel-Gleyre and École Supérieure d’art eat design ale Harre-Rouen.
Spouse:Eugenie Lesouezec she died in 1898, they didn’t marry until August 5th, 1897 and they were only married for 1 year before she died.
He created around 900 oil paintings,100 pastels and many drawings.
He was 59 years old when he died.
Parents:William Sisley,Felicia Sell.
Siblings:Elizabeth Emilie Sisley, Henry Sisley.

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Name: Snow at Louveciennes (1878)

Artist: Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)

Medium: Oil painting on canvas
Subject matter:Walkng in the snow in the Winter.

Genre: Landscape painting

Movement: French Impressionism
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Location: Musee d'Orsay, Paris