Art Appreciation Finals

IMPRESSIONISM

● It is characterized by small, visible, and heavy

brushstrokes.
● depictions of common subject matter
● a focus on natural light
● compositions inspired by photography.
● Pointillism is an offshoot of Impressionism MONET - LITTLE BRIDGE
● focus on ordinary people
● no mythology, important people, powerful people
● abandoned linear religion perspective
● cloudy appearance
● fast painting because they want to capture the
impression right away. natural light to the sun.
● forgetting natural light.
● realism can't tell what time the painter paint the
MONET- IRISES
painting because of natural light
● small and visible brush stroke

The word IMPRESSION actually deeming term, not

flattering, not a painting just an impression. just a sketch.

IMPRESSIONISTS - are rejected because of this. and

they introduce themself impressionist.

EDOUARD MANET - first impressionist and champion in

impressionist. MONET - WATERLILIES - large painting; whole wall

CLAUSE MONET’S PAINTINGS

MONET – ROUEN CATHEDRAL

MONET - SUNRISE / IMPRESSION SUNRISE
ROUEN CATHEDRAL was famous for his natural light,
because its different depends on time and seasons

EDOUARD MANET’ PAINTINGS

MONET - A PATH TO AN ARTIST’S GARDEN

EDOUARD MANET – A BAR AT THE FOLIES BERGERE

- court gallery; focus on bartender/waitress.
 RENOIR - LARGE BATHERS - idealized beauty
MANET - DE JEUNER SUL HERBE - musue dorsei

GEORGES SEURAT - popular in the whole world

MUSEE D'ORSAY - most impressionist artwork.

RENOIR - LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PARTY - how

you would take the party? - one of the characteristics.

MANET - DEAD CHRIST AND THE ANGELS - realistic

rendition
RENOIR - MOULIN DE LA GALETTE

MANET - MONET PAINTING ON HIS FLOATING STUDIO

- subject, Claude Monet. BOULEVARD MONTMARTRE (SERIES) by CAMILLE
PISSARO - male french painter district in pairs. different
times and different seasons. hazy and lack of detail.
outdoor. picture light. captured the moment

PISSARRO painted it in 1897 after renting a room at the

GRAND HOTEL DE RUSSIE in PARIS with a perfect view.

MANET - OLYMPIA - one example nude painting You can also see the ROUEN CATHEDRAL

Olympia, a prostitute, modelled by VICTORINE MEURENT

and Olympia's servant by the art model LAURE.

ABSINTHE DRINKER by EDGAR DEGAS

AUGUSTE RENOIR - LA LOGE - coupled watching opera. ABSINTHE - a type of alcohol. can cause hallucinations. it
LODGE in the opera house. is like a drug. subject, actress, husband, and wife.
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
● is the term coined to describe the development of
French art since Manet.
● They continued using vivid colors, often the thick
application of paint but they were more inclined to
emphasize geometric forms, distort forms for
expressive effect, and use unnatural or arbitrary
colors.
VAN GOGH - NIGHT CAFE - large brushstroke
● a bit gaudy, tacky.
● geometric forms - like cubes, squares, etc.
● abstract forms
● artist sensibility and sensitivity.

VINCENT VAN GOGH’s PAINTINGS

VAN GOGH - CAFE TERRACE AT NIGHT

PAUL CEZANNE’s PAINTINGS

VINCENT VAN GOGH – A STARRY NIGHT

VAN GOGH use STARRY STARRY NIGHT (VINCENT)

Music to express himself how serious the depression.

The original title of STARRY STARRY NIGHT was

VINCENT

CYPRESS TREE - associated with death.

PAUL CEZANNE - CHATEAU NOIR - started cube
brushstroke
Paul Cezanne began to paint the landscape in planes of
colour. (A plane is a flat surface).

VAN GOGH - IRISES

CEZANNE - BRIDGE OF MAINCY

VAN GOGH – SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BANDAGED EAR

VAN GOGH cut his ears because of depression

VAN GOGH also suicide when he shot himself in the
STOMACH, particularly in the ABDOMEN.
CEZANNE - MONT SAINTE VICTOIRE - not blended his
Van Gogh never sold a painting.
brushstroke which cause blocky.
 CEZANNE - ONIONS AND BOTTLES
GAUGUIN - TROPICAL VEGETATION IN MARTINIQUE

CEZANNE - SEVEN BATHERS GAUGUIN - JOYOUSNESS - povius influence

Paul Gauguin often painted village people in their bright

clothes. Paul Gauguin liked to paint in very bright colours
and flat patterns.

CEZANNE - THE FOREST

PAUL GAUGUIN’s PAINTINGS

“A SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON THE ISLAND OF LA
GRANDE JATTE” - GEORGE SEURAT - pointillism
technique; prostitute that can meet rish person.

Pointillism - light and experimented with painting pictures

in hundreds of tiny dots of bright colour.

PAUL GAUGUIN - WHAT ARE YOU JEALOUS?

GAUGUIN - WHERE ARE YOU GOING? - lack of value

 Refusés which showed all the pictures that had been
"refused". Many people went to see this exhibition and
soon discovered that there was a new "movement" in art,
quite different from the style that they were used to.

In 1872 Monet and his friends formed a society called the

"Cooperative and Anonymous Association of Painters,
Impressionism History. Sculptors, and Engravers". They began to organize their
own art show. In 1874 thirty artists held their first
This was from Google; don’t worry because all of this exhibition. The critic Louis Leroy made fun of their work
was said. That is why I don’t take notes in the history and wrote an article called The Exhibition of the
part. Impressionists. The critic Louis Leroy made fun of their
work and wrote an article called The Exhibition of the
Impressionists. The public who came to the exhibition
The term 'impressionism' comes from a painting by also began to use this name. The painters themselves
Claude Monet, which he showed in an exhibition with soon started to use the name "Impressionists" and they
the name Impression, soleil levant ("Impression, have been called by that name ever since. The main
Sunrise") artists who are called "Impressionists" include Claude
Monet, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro,
An art critic called Louis Leroy saw the exhibition and Alfred Sisley, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Armand
wrote a review in which he said that all the paintings Guillaumin, Mary Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte and
were just "impressions". Frederic Bazille.

That's why they called themself as a Impressionist Some of the Impressionists, Monet and Renoir, lived to
Artist. be old and famous, but others died very poor.

In the 19th century, most artists learned to paint by Even though many Impressionist artists painted people,
attending an art school or academy. The academies they are thought of mainly for their landscape painting.
were very strict about the way that young artists learnt Impressionist painters were not satisfied with doing some
to paint. drawings or quick painted sketches outdoors and then
making grand pictures in the studio. Impressionist
In the 19th century, most artists learned to paint by painters were not satisfied with painting the shape of the
attending an art school or academy. The academies land, the buildings and trees. They wanted to capture the
were very strict about the way that young artists learnt light and the weather.
to paint. The popular style of painting was called
classicism. Classical paintings were always done Another artist, Eugene Boudin, used to sit on the beach
inside a studio. They often showed stories from at Deauville with his oil paints, and make quick paintings
mythology. of the people on holiday. They would sometimes buy his
paintings as souvenirs.
At the same time there were several painters who
loved to paint the French landscape and the village Claude Monet met Boudin and learnt that the only way to
people in a realist way, different from Classicism. They "capture" the way that a landscape looked at a particular
would often make small quick paintings out of doors, time was to paint small pictures, very quickly, and without
and then finish them in the studio. These artists bothering to mix the paints up to make nice smooth even
include Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste Corot. colours. Impressionist painters would use big
Edgar Degas wrote in 1883: "There is one master, brushstrokes of different bright colours and let them get
Corot. We are nothing in comparison, nothing". mixed up on the canvas, instead of carefully mixing them
up on a palette first. By painting in this way, without
Every year the academy in Paris would hold a big bothering with the details, Impressionist painters capture
exhibition (art show) called the Salon de Paris. In 1863 a realistic "impression" of a the world that they saw
an artist called Edouard Manet put a picture into the around them.
show called Lunch on the Grass ("Le déjeuner sur
l'herbe"). The judges at the Salon refused to hang this Post- Impressionism
work in the gallery because it showed a naked woman
sitting on the grass with two men wearing clothes. If Many artists worked with the Impressionists for a short
the painting had been about Ancient Greek mythology, time, but then began to try out new ideas. These artists
this would not be a problem but these men were all painted in different ways, but together are called the
wearing ordinary suits, and the woman's dress and hat Post-Impressionists.
were lying on the grass. Perhaps she was a prostitute!
The judges said that the painting was indecent (very
rude).[2] Monet and his friends also had their paintings Their art styles grew out of the style called
turned away. They were angry and they met with Impressionism.
Manet to discuss this. The Emperor Napoleon III gave
permission for another exhibition called the Salon des
The word "Post-" means "after", so "post-
impressionist" painting came after "impressionist"
painting. These artists developed impressionism but
rejected its limitations.

They continued using the real-life subject matter, with

vivid colours, often with thick paint. However, they
added other ideas. Using geometric forms, to
distorting form for effect, and using unnatural colours
are some of their ways.

The critic Rewald said "the term 'post-

impressionism' is not a very precise one, though a
very convenient one".

The main post-impressionist painters were Paul

Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Georges
Seurat, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Henri Rousseau
('Le Douanier'). Picasso and Braque were certainly
post-impressionists, but we describe them as Cubists.