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Why learn about Impressionism?. We will… see how master artists have painted . learn what you should be striving for in your plein -air oil pastels (the next unit.) learn how to “read” art and talk about it . Use this information when putting together your 2 nd art history book. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Why learn about Impressionism?
We will…• see how master artists have painted.• learn what you should be striving for in
your plein-air oil pastels (the next unit.)• learn how to “read” art and talk about
it.• Use this information when putting
together your 2nd art history book.
Impressionism- • 19th century art movement• Word is from “Sunrise”• Originated in Paris • Used large brush strokes• Focused on the effects of the
change in time
Claude Monet, Impression – Sunrise, 1872.http://www.toffsworld.com/art_artists_painters/impressionist_impressionism_art_movement.htm
Artists of Impressionism and Post Impressionism
• Monet Van Gogh• Pissarro Mary Cassatt• Renoir Toulouse-Lautrec
Seurat
Impressionists• Monet• Renior• Pissarro
Post Impressionists• Seurat• Van Gogh • Mary Cassatt• Toulouse-Lautrec
Paris Salon of 1865
Examples of paintings hung in the French Salon(Artists: Delacroix and Poussin)-What does the subject matter of these two paintings seem to be?-What style of clothing are the subjects wearing?-What are the main colors?
Eduard Manet
• First shown in the Salon des Refuses- a reaction by artists rejected by the state run Salon
Jacques Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1787.
Honoré Daumier satirized the bourgeoises scandalized by the Salon's Venuses, 1864
Monet1840-1926
Waterlilies, 1920-1926, Musee de l’Orangerie.
Nature, time of day, light, and color
PISSARRO 1830-1903.
Renior1841-1919
RENOIR, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876, Musee d’Orsay.
Mary Cassatt1844-1926
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Self Portraits
Sketch, in Paris, 1886.
With felt hat, 1886.
1886-87.
With Straw Hat, 1887.With a Japanese print, 1887.
(influenced by Pointillism,)1887.
With a bandaged ear, inArles, 1889. At Sainte-Remy, 1889.
The Potato Eatters, lithograph on Japan paper, 1885.
Van Gogh’s still lifes
COLOUR EXPRESSES
SOMETHING IN ITSELF.
One can’t do without it;
one must make use of it. What
looks beautiful---
really beautiful, is
also right. Vincent van Gogh, Nuenen, 28 October 1885.
Starry Night, 1889, oil on canvas, now at the Museum of Modern Art.
In a letter to Theo, van Gogh wrote, “…it does me good to do what’s difficult. That doesn’t stop me from having a tremendous need for, shall I say the word ---for religion. So I go outside at night to paint the stars.”Van Gogh, the letters to Theo van Gogh. On or about Saturday, 29 September 1888.
Starry Night reed pen study, 1889, part of the Baldin Collection.
Van Gogh, Bedroom in Arles, 1888, Van Gogh Museum.
Auvers-sur-Oise, July 1890. “They are vast stretches of wheat under troubled skies, and I did not have to go out of my way very much in order to try to express sadness and extreme loneliness…. I'm fairly sure that these canvases will tell you what I cannot say in words, that is, how healthy and invigorating I find the countryside.”
Pointillism/Neo-impressionismSeurat
Henri Matisse1869-1954
The Luxembourg Gardens.
The Riverbank.
landscapes
Copse on the Bank of the Garonne.The Riverbank.
Still Lifes
Still life with Apples on a Pink Tablecloth.
Still life with Pansies.
Still Life with Aubergines.