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Midterm Review
Impressionism
Three key points of impressionist technique
1. Rejection of chiaroscuro (traditional shading, using dark and light)2. The depiction of the interaction of light and colour en plein air (painting in open air)3. Equalization of brush strokes across the surface of the canvas
Why paint? What is the purpose of art with the emergence of photography /what is art?
o Painting created and portrayed atmosphere through colour useo Light colour be portrayed as colour
Explored photography versus painting Painting portrayed the sensation of the landscape
o Ex. Boulivard des Capucines
Impressionist Technique Oil in tubes Painted en plien air (outside, fast) Using contrasting colours side by side Used broad brush strokes to mimic how we see Perspective as where we are as a viewer ( Ex. Mary Cassatt Opera )
Classical Technique Chiaroscuro: use of strong contrast between dark and light (Ex. Mona Lisa) Makes studies (artist was not there when painted)
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** Impressionist painting light leaves spots or stripes
Ex. Ball at the Moulin de Galette
Avant Garde Vs Modernism
Terms:
Realism: Coined in 1855 to emphasise that subjects that are a record of what the artist hasexperienced
Avant-garde: Any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts andtechniques in a given field (Ex. Czanne)
Modernism: An artist who by his works make an aesthetic statement
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Ex. Manet Dejeuner Sur lherbe
Flaneur : member of the upper middle class of France (the Bougeoisie) who didnt have towork for a living. Ex. Manet
Impasto: Thick application of paint on canvas, textured surface
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Examples of people in impressionism
John Constable
Radical in his time Art was of traditional scene
o Went back and added small globs of white Ripples, underside leaves, reflection in the water When Delicroix had thought he was done painting Massacres of Scio
(1824 ) (people on the beach) he went and saw Constable's The HayWain and literally RAN home to add white to bring his new painting tolife
Did many studies of the sky
Gustave Corbeit
Ex. The stonebreakers
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Jean Millit
Ex. The Gleaners
Movement in images Only escape from the environment is a tiny window Not a portrait because you cannot see faces
o Shadows + hidden faces help set these people apart Figures take up majority of the space
o Implying importance Gleaners wear red which is colours of France
o Very political
Neo-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism was not a movemento Refers to a generation of artist who often worked independently and whose
works are in debted to impressionism
There are two Neo-impressionists Paul Signac George Seurat
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Seurat
Took studies and sketches for work Methodical process consistent with academic process Last layer are the dots Sketchy style No harsh lines Places figures within a contemporary style
o Rejected by the salon in 1864 showed in the first exhibition of independent artist
Sunday Afternoon on the Island La Grande Jatte 1884o Literalness and an abstraction at the same time
Classical posingo Portrays modern life
Money portrays the theatre or the darker side of society Upper middle class portrayal
Pointillism Points of colouro The use of Pigment to recreate light and colour
Le Chahut 1889-90o At Moulin rougeo Emotions can be depicted by angels and colours
Vertical: abrupt, strength, stability Up on an angle: joy and gayety Down on an angle: sadness
Horizontal: restfulnesso
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Paul Signac
Use of dots is sometimes overboard
3 Paradoxes of Neo-Impressionism
1. Captures literalness of a photograph but also is almost abstract in its rendering2. Carries something of the classical academic tradition, yet is unconventionally of the
modern life3. Interest in science yet contains the sense of utopian, the ideal
Paradox of the loss of the individual of the artisto Seeking to find a universal but becoming distinct as there are only really two
neo-impressionist
Vincent Van Gough
Japan opened its door to international trade
o Vincent though Japan was the ideal worldo Japanese wood block painting had a different way of portraying distance
1887 Bridge in the rain is inspired by a block print
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Examples + Explanations
1887 Portrait of Pere Tanguyo Seated in manner of Japanese Buddhist monko Aura with brush strikeo Impasto technique
1888 La Crauo Very Japan o Clarity startling yellows vs. blue skyo Each brushstroke is a stock of wheato Well defined like a print
Night Cafo Wants to depict a place where one can go mad, and ruin ones self o Portrays terrible passion of the humanity in green and redo Use of colour is effective in portraying emotiono Emotion and anxiety
1885 Potato Eaterso Earlier paintingo Emphasize the values of those that work to earn their livingo Feeling of guilt for the upper middle class he is part of
1888 The Harvest
Paul Czanne
Theme of representation and perceptiono Representing on a 2D canvas, what he seeso Evidence of strong pictorial order
Paradox of Modernity and Modernismo Concern of representing the physical world but intensely personalo Sought to restore sense of physicality/weight of objects that had disappeared
with impressionismo Revaluates traditional one point perspective that was dependent on a fixed
viewpoint
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o Uses tradition type subject matter
Terms:
Passage Technique of broken down colour
A painting doesnt have to represent something Czanne would never go as far as abstractionbut he wants to show in each of his work that it can be an object and presentation it does nothave to be a presentations hes interested in the arrangement of the colour and form oncanvas
Mont Sainte Victoire
1872-3 Modern Olympia
Rich commentary on Venus Guy is freaking out staring at the
Venus The lust cat replaces the poodle The slave is pulling of the sheets
1867-8 The Murder
Impressionist dont focus on thedarkness of the social upheaval theywere going through
We see this focus and awareness of theissues + very formal
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1879-82 House in Provence
Time is inherent in this landscapeo Source of light comes from
different angleso Traditional in terms of
perspectiveo Cezanne walks through,
observing
Gauguin and Primitivism
Provides the other cornerstone of modern art The representing of idea beyond the physical world Art is not just a copy of nature
Symbolist art; coincides with the emergence of symbolism in literature
Terms:
Primitivism: Complex, multi-dimension term in the late 19 th c
Systhetism: Coined by Gauguin and Bernard, not a mirror image of the world but a synthesisimage that has a deeper, emotional, invisible meaning; not so much a style as a style wheresimplification and concentration of elements are used to convey essential ideas
Fin-de- Siecle: Literally, end of the century , refers to the mental state of the mind prevalentamongst many intellectuals at the end of the 19 th people who were disenchanted with theexcess of the modern world
Parisians started leaving Paris to go to Britony They wanted to go out and enjoy primitive life
o Probably because the overwhelm of primitivismo Embrace the country side and also the exotic
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