Transcript Impressionism: the New Painting

Impressionism:
the New Painting
Art History September 13, 2007
Grade 12 Visual Arts
Ms LeRoy
Neo Classicism: the old painting.
David, The Oath of Horatii
French Realism
Gustave Courbet, Burial at Ornans
Édouard Manet
Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863
Manet’s Olympia
Titian’s Venus of Urbino
Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus
James M Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold:
The Falling Rocket, 1875
James Abbott McNeil Whistler, Arrangement in Black
and Gray (Portrait of the Artist’s Mother), 1871
Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1872
Monet’s Rouen Cathedral
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Edgar Degas, Absinthe, 1876
Pierre-August Renoir,
Le Moulin De La Galette, 1876
Mary Cassatt, Girl Arranging her Hair, 1886
Monet
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Early 1860s, France. Paris was still a medieval city up until the time when Napolean III
(Boneparte’s nephew) proclaims himself ruler and appoints Baron Haussmann to modernize
Paris for political and aesthetic reasons. Haussmann supervises urban design of drainage,
sewers, clean water, bridges, fountains, public parks to discourage revolutionary activities
and uprisings.
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Impressionism rejects Renaissance perspective, balanced composition, idealized figures
and chiaroscuro
Represented immediate visual sensations through colour and light
Influenced by Japanese woodblock prints that were appearing on the market
was interested in the effects of light and color
based on observation, not interested in politics or religion
"art for art's sake" (Whistler)
used broken color, rather than flat
Impressionism began in France with a group of artists interested in color
Claude Monet was the leader of the Impressionist movement . He used diffused light and
color to create composition Impression: Sunrise, 1872, oil on canvas.
one critic advised that small children or pregnant women should not see this work
Period that lasted only 15 years
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