Transcript Impressionism & Modern Art

Impressionism & Modern Art
Bakke
Impressionism
• Began w/ Paris School
• Characteristics:
– 1) instead of portraying religious, mythological,
and historical themes, painters began to depict
modern life of urban middle and lower middle
classes
– 2) Artists were fascinated with light color and the
representation through painting itself of
momentary, largely unfocused visual experience
whether of social life or of landscapes
Impressionism 1875-1905
• Scandalous for the time
• Against the Salon of Paris requirements and
rules  impressionists were art renegades
• Napoleon III & Hausmann’s Paris were the the
backdrop
– Paris café scenes, danse studios, concerts, picnics,
boating, lesiure, & still lifes / landscapes
Artists of Note
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Manet
Monet
Pissaro
Renoir
Degas
Manet’s Olympia 1863
Monet’s Water Lillys 1906
“L’Avenue Opera De Paris” 1896Pissaro
Renoir -Dance at the Le Moulin
Gallette 1876
Degas
Post Impressionism 1880s onward
• Form and Structure rather than impression of
the moment played the major role
• A continuation of Impressionism not a
reaction to
• Key figures: Seurat, Cezanne, Van Gogh, and
Gauguin
Seurat (pointillism) 1884 “Grande
Jatte”
Cezanne Still-Life’s 1890-94
Cezanne – Landscape of Provence
Van Gogh Starry Night 1889
Gauguin -1892The Seed of the Areoi- Tahiti
Cubism 1907 and beyond
• Braque and Picasso
• Rejected the idea of a painting as constituting a
window onto the real world
• Saw painting as an autonomous realm of art itself w/
no purpose beyond itself
• Represented only two dimensions in their painting–
flatness of surface
• Attempted to include at one time on a single surface
as many different perspectives, angles, or views of
object as possible
Braque- La Femme a la Guitarra
Picasso – Jolie 1913
Picasso –
Blue Period
1906-7
Guernica 1936
Las Meninas (Cubist Version)
Las
Meninas
(Original
Velazquez
Version)
Abstract Art- Post WWI
Otto Dix- Portrait of Sylvia Von
Harden 1926
Joan Miro Blue 3 -1961
Blue II
Blue explained
• Blue was a symbol of a world of cosmic dreams, an
unconscious state where his mind flowed clearly and without
any sort of order.
• This blue was the color of a surreal night, a night that
embodied the only place where dreams could exist in their
rawest state, untouched and uncensored by conscious,
rational though
• “The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I’m overwhelmed
when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or
the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge, empty
spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains—
everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.”
Surrealism
• Dali- The
Great
Masturbator
1929
Dali- Persistence of Memory 1931
Contemporary Art- Jackson Pollock
“springs” 1956
Pop Art- Andy Warhol -1967