Art is Us 7: Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism

Match the image with text. 1. Greek Classic origins. 2. Borrowed composition. 3. Romantic. 4. Idealized. 5. Places the viewer off stage.

6. Dramatic and theatrical. 7. A Baroque interpretation. 8. Realism. 9. Art For Art’s Sake. 10. Linear. 11. Chiaroscuro reduced to local color. 12. Influenced by the flatness of Japanese prints. 13. Recessional composition. 14. Reality is the fact that the canvas is flat. 15. Time in flux.

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Art For Art’s Sake

Whistler: His Mother or Arrangement In Grey and Black

Subject matter was nowthe visual elements of…

Compositional design Space

Color

Paint and canvas

COMPAREPieter Claesz (c. 1597–1660), Still Life with Salt Tub Paul Cézanne Still Life with Apples

A NEW ROLE FORPAINT & CANVAS

REALISM

POST-IMPRESSIONISM

IMPRESSIONISMManet Renoir

Cézanne

Edgar Degas

What is new incompositionaldesign here?

And what was the source of thisnew vision?

REALISM

No dramatic finish.

Local color emphasis.

Minimal modeling.

Even illumination.

Candid.

Degas

A debt of gratitude to Courbet and Manet

Why would thelabel “Romantic”be inappropriate?

Real life’s candid moments.

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Real paint's interpretationDegasAlthough influenced by the camera…

Say farewell to Romanticism.

Degas Bath

Common subjectsUndramatic and non-flattering posesPastel renderings

A moment in practice is the performance.

How would a Romantic paint this?

East Meets WestWhistler Monet

Origin of theIMPRESSIONIST Label

Monet & The

Impressionists

Monet The Saint-Lazare Station

Capturing sunlight on forms andatmosphere at a particular

time of day.

The MomentThe Particular

The Rouen Cathedral Mission: The effect of changing light

COLOR LUMINOSITY

Achieved when colors of similar hue & equal valuevanish at their boundaries.

At what point does the text vanish?

At what point does the text become luminous?

The Moment

Luminosity achieved through Vanishing Boundaries and Halations

Renoir & Monet

TWO IMPRESSIONISTS

FORM GIVES WAY TOCOLOR & LIGHT

Renoir

Caillebotte Floor Scrapers

Other Impressionists and their worlds

Caillebotte: Rooftops Under Snow

Two Women Impressionists

Mary Cassatt Berthe Marisot The Cradle

”Impressionists replaced the

gray toned works associated

with traditional studio art with

strokes of bright, unmixed colour.”

Some art historians perpetuate a myth, when closer scrutiny reveals flawed seeing.Note the difference between full chroma swatches and Monet's actual color palette.

Post-Impressionism: Moving towards more

personal interpretations.

EXPRESSION

ABSTRACTION

FANTASY

Cézanne

van Gogh

Gauguin

Toulouse-Lautrec Portrait of van Gogh van Gogh Self-portraitMutual Influences

Empathy with a brush and without clients.

van Gogh: Potato Eaters

van Gogh The Blooming Plumtree

Eastern Influence

Impressionist's influence could not restrain personal expression.

van Gogh Patch of Grass

Psychological attachment

to color.

van Gogh Café Terrace at Night

Toulouse-Lautrec: Subjects from Paris night life.

Toulouse-Lautrec Moulin Rouge PatronagePersonal and social deformities.

The Entertainers of Lautrec's world.

Lautrec

Lautrec: Portrait of Justine DieuhlNobility in search of another kind of nobility?

Gauguin: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

A search for a reality beneath appearances

Gauguin: Swineherd

From establishmentto painter of adifferent society.

Gauguin: Spirit of the Dead Watching

The “Noble Savage”:Portrayal of the significance of reality.

Why is the figure flattened?

Paying homage to color for its own sake.

Gauguin The White Horse

“…if you see a blue tree in the forestand you like the color, paint it all blue!”

Photograph of Gauguin

The Great Escape From Convention.

Gauguin: Self-Portrait

Seurat: Sunday Afternoon

Controlled arrangements of form and color.

Cézanne: Still Life with Apples

Particulars surrender to the Universal