Transcript Art History Slides 32-

Art History Slides 32-40
Post Impressionism
• Post-Impressionism refers to an artistic style that
followed Impressionism at the end of the 1800s.
• Most Post-Impressionist artists began as
Impressionists, but then decided to try new ideas.
Seurat was Post-Impressionist because he did not
paint like artists before him, but invented the
Pointillist style.
Other artists like Vincent van Gogh wanted to add
emotion and symbolic meaning to their art through
color and line. Van Gogh’s work often contained
bold color and expressive brushstrokes!
Georges Seurat
• Georges Seurat was a French painter who
founded a painting style called pointillism.
He began painting in the style of
Impressionism but soon became more
interested in scientific color theory. He is
famous for using little dabs or points of
pure bright color to paint. When viewed
from a distance, the eye mixes the colors
together.
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat
1884-86
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Bathers at Asnie’res
Georges Seurat
The Circus
Georges Seurat
Vincent Van Gogh
• Vincent Van Gogh’s application of paint was
indisputably direct, for he often squeezed
paint straight from the tube onto the canvas!
His restlessness registered in his art,
animating skies and trees into a swirling
embroidery of line and color. There is an
emotional quality in Van Gogh’s art that seems
to always evoke response.
The Starry Night
Vincent Van Gogh
1889
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Paul Gauguin
• If a place has a spirit, Tahiti’s soul has been
forever cast into the art of Gaughin. He has
arrested the bright tropical colors in his exotic
beaches, filled with splashy sarong patterns
and powerful carvings.
Tahitian Women on the Beach
Paul Gauguin
1891
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Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
• Lautrec’s fascination with Parisian night life is
documented in his paintings, drawings, and
prints. Characters and performers-can-can
dancer June Avril and the famous La Goluecontinue to make their appearances in
Lautrec’s art to this very day. His sense of
design, advertising graphics, and fine
craftsmanship converged to form ToulouseLautrec’s witty and unforgettable posters.
At the Moulin Rouge
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
1891
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Expressionism
• After Gauguin and van Gogh showed the way,
art abandoned its traditional goal of depicting
nature and exploded into the twentieth
century with violent colors, abstract forms,
and emotional subjects in an attempt to
express the contemporary mind.
Henri Rousseau
The Sleeping Gypsy
Henri Rousseau
1897
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Dance I
Henri Matisse
1909
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Wassily Kandinsky
• Kandinsky took his cue from music and sought
to distribute geometrical elements across the
canvas the way tones and motifs are
distributed through a musical score. To
Kandinsky, circles and triangles were
evocations of the spiritual, inner life of man.
In painting, he strives to impose pictorial
reason on emotional experience.
Composition 8
Wassily Kandinsky
1923
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The Scream
1893
Edvard Munch
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Gustav Klimt
• Gustav Klimt, whose incredibly ornamental
works, addressed romantic themes of love and
life.
• During his “golden period,” the artist makes much
use of gold in his choice of colors, even to the
extent of applying real gold leaf to his canvases.
Gold is in fact a non-color and its shimmering
vibrations suggest associations with the mystical,
the religious, and the magical, as well as
reflecting the preciousness of the subject.
The Kiss
1907
Gustav Klimt
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