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Baroque (1600-1750)Rococo (1715-1775)
Neoclassicism (1750-1824)Romanticism (19th)
Realism (Mid to end of 19th)Impressionism (End of 19th, start of 20th)
Post-Impressionism (End of 19th, start of 20th)
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Claude Monet (1840-1926), Self-portrait, 1886,Oil on canvas, Private collection, Paris
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• Word appears in 1874
• How over what is seen
• Use of new pigments
• Complementary colors
• Broken color technique
• Form is color
• Capturing the fleeting moment
• Urban and industrial themes
Impressionism
• Space acquires life
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La Grenouillère, 1869, Oil on canvas, 74,6 x 99,7 cm Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York
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Impression, Sunrise, 1872, Oil on canvas,Musée Marmottan, Paris
Source: 7
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La gare Saint-Lazare, 1877, Oil on canvas,75 cm x 104 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Source: 7
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Wheatstack (Snow Effect, Overcast day), 1890-91 (both), 66 x 93 cm (both),The Art Institute of Chicago (both); Wheatstack (Thaw, Sunset)
Source: 8
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The Portal and the Tower of the Saint-Romain at Brilliant Sun, Harmony in Blue and Gold, 1893, Oil on canvas (both), 107 × 73 cm (both), Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Rouen
Cathedral, The Façade in Sunlight Location, 1894, Clark Art Institute , Williamstown
Source: 7
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Houses of Parliament, London, c. 1904, 81 x 92 cm (?),Palace of Fine-Arts, Lille, France; Fog Effect, 1904; 82,6 x 92,7 cm; Museum of
Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
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Key notions
-Broken color
-Complementary color
Impressionism, St. Lawrence, Fall 2009, Beaudoin
Required reading-Gombrich, The Story of Art, p. 397-408
Suggested readings-Cleaver, Art, an Introduction, p. 517-523-Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, vol. 5, p. 114-119-Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages, p. 869-877
Impressionism, St. Lawrence, Fall 2009, Beaudoin
Bibliography and Sources
1. Adams, Exploring the Humanities2. Cleaver, Art, an Introduction3. Davies, Janson’s Basic History of Western Art4. Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, vol. 55. Gombrich, The Story of Art6. Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages7. www.wga.hu8. www.wikipedia.com