Subjects of Impressionism:
1- often pleasure or the pleasurable
2- landscapes that are enjoyable to look at
Characteristics of Impressionism:
1- Desire to capture the everyday world with as much immediacy as a camera
2- wanted to surpass photography by showing sensations of the moment in color and light
3- realistic in the sense of being committed to paint in the world around them as they saw it
4- comparative coarse, unfinished appearance of canzases
5- lighter palette
6- lively, high keyed color
emphasis on women and children, mothers w/babies
Mary Cassatt
Portraits - interest inhuman figure
ppl @ work - dance and opera
Edgar Degas
- Subjects most often effects of light on water
- bc of his vision disability - produces abstract art
Claude Monet
happy pictures - middle class at leisure at play
Pierre Auguste Renoir
- exhibited in all of impressionists and exhibits
- most natural of all the impressionists
Camille Pissaro
credited w/ regenerating sculpture as a major art form
Auguste Rodin
Characteristics of the Post-Impressionists:
1- concern w/ sculpture and form
2- greater emphasis on formal discipline
3- moved closer to abstraction
Significance of Post-Impressionists:
- release western art form representational concerns thus paving the way for “Modern Art”
concerned w/ visually expressing the basic structure of the world
Paul Cezanne
- invented Pointillism
- pics are often austere, very controlled, very formal
Georges Seurat
Subjects of Van Gogh:
common scenes and ppl – loving portrayed
Technique of Van Gogh:
- heavily loaded brush
- Rough often violent movement
- dramatic, vibrant colors
- highly sophisticated; great formal skill
Prototype for the modern artist
Van Gogh
- cynical view of modern civilization
- large field of flat color – pinks, yellows, greens
- did Tahitian work
Paul Gauguin
- circus, theatre: seamier side of Paris society
- dramatic color
- strong silhouette
Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec
