December 3, 2007

• Impressionism/Post Impressionism notes

• Set up graph for timed readings.

• 2 lessons.

Impressionism & Post-Impressionism

Exploring Color and Light

Impressionism, is a major movement in painting that mostly started in

France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Impressionism was a short period between 1867-1886. A group of artists shared a set of painting techniques and ideas.

  Camille Pissarro, The Beet Harvest, 1881

Impressionism:

Accurately recorded reality using the changing effects of light and color

Landscape: art work about or of the land.Famous Impressionists: Claude Monet….

….Camille Pissaro…

Detail of Edgar Degas painting

…and Edgar Degas.

Post Impression: (Began after Impressionism)

A subject is not totally realistic and also expresses the emotional state

of the artist.

The movement began after Impressionism and began to include more of Europe.

Famous Post-Impressionists:

Henri Matisse…

Portrait: Picture or painting of

living beings

…..Edvard Munch...

….Paul Cezanne….

Still life: picture or painting of non-living objects

…Paul Gauguin…

…and Vincent Van Gogh.

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."-Howard Beecher