Transcript Impressionism 1860-1886 - Appleton Area School District

Impressionism
1860-1886
Impressionism
• Rejected Renaissance perspective, balance,
idealization
• Present an “impression” or “perception”
• Painted nature outdoors
• Hated academic instruction
• Critics hated this work
• Distinct short, choppy brushstrokes
– Up-close, picture is unrecognizable
Edouard Manet
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Called the Father of Modern Art
Didn’t consider himself an impressionist
Copied Renaissance and Baroque masters
Luncheon on the Grass
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Disliked because nude was not “ideal”
Triangular
Goddess like figure in background
Still life in foreground
Olympia
Claude Monet
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Light=color
Lived in poverty
Obsessed with painting outside
Painted small dabs of color
– Used complimentary colors to shade
– Never shaded in black
Rouen Cathedral,
the West Portal
and Saint-Romain
Tower, Full
Sunlight,
Harmony in Blue
and Gold
The Artist's
Garden at
Vetheuil
The Thames at Westminster
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Never used black
Cut people off at edges of canvas
Strayed from Impressionism towards classicism
Arthritis: painted with brush strapped to wrist
Painted happy things
– Beautiful women, flowers, children, landscapes
Le Moulin de la Galette
Seated
Bather
Monet painting in his garden at Argenteuil
Edgar Degas
• Reluctant impressionist
• Hated painting outdoors
• Subjects: ballerinas, racetracks, circuses,
cafes, nudes bathing
• Spontaneous/not posed
• Main character off center
• Went blind and turned to sculpture
The Rehearsal
Prima
Ballerina
Woman
Combing Her
Hair
The Little
14-Year-Old
Dancer
Expressionism
1880-1905
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Used a lot of Impressionist ideal
“Rainbow bright color patches”
Distorted forms in a controlled space
No use of traditional perspective
Disliked Impressionism
– Wanted art to be more substantial
– Not dedicated to a passing moment
Georges Seurat
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Meticulous man
Finished only 7 large paintings
Died at age 31
Method know as pointillism
– Confetti-sized dots of pure, unmixed color
– Supposed to fuse together like a mosaic
La Cirque
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• Subjects from contemporary life (theaters,
dance halls, circuses)
• ‘Landscape is only a background’
• Childhood accident left him deformed
• Lived in a brothel for a while
• Created lithography
• Posters became accepted as art
Lithograph
Moulin Rouge
Rue de Moulin,
The Medical
Inspection
Paul Cezanne
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Started out with the Impressionists
They did not accept him and critics hated him
Used geometry in paintings
Very symmetrical
“The culmination of art is figure painting”
– Would not work from models
– Combines real and abstract
Apples, Peaches, Pears and Grapes
Large Bathers
Vincent van Gogh
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Adopted the brushstroke of the Impressionist
Hero/friend was painter Paul Gauguin
Mentally imbalanced
Sold one painting during his life
Unlucky in love
Cut off ear lobe and gave it to a prostitute
Painted “Starry Night” in an asylum
Committed suicide
“Who would believe that life could be so sad?”
Portrait of
Dr. Gachet
In 1990, sold for
$82.5 million.
Wheat Field Under Threatening Skies
This was his final piece.
Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers
Paul Gauguin
Would van Gogh be as famous as he
is had he not committed suicide?
Did his troubled life help him create
artistic masterpieces?