Secret of Tonalism You've heard of Impressionism, but did you
know there was before that a style very popular with American
artist and their collectors called Tonalism? It's as American as
Jazz and baseball, yet not well known because it was identified
or rediscovered only recently, within the last forty years. It's
an open secret: the tonalist are alive and well and people like
the style as much as ever. Seeing a modern tonalist painting
today you may think it's impressionistic. While the line is
blurred there is a difference between the two. Anyone could
benefit from studying tonalist artwork...the principles are
universal. It's a successful, time-tested, proven style you may
want to consider adopting whole or in part. Why reinvent the
wheel, stick with a winner! "After Impressionism, painting went
in many different directions. All kinds of "isms" sprang up -
Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, and
Futurism, just to name a few. Realism went back to the Tonalist
method of painting, and later