Transcript From Realism to Impressionism: Édouard Manet – Rejected by the Salon – Manet becomes hero to nonconformist – Greatly influenced Monet and others (He adopted the Impressionist approach about 1873) – Impressionists emerge Le.

From Realism to Impressionism:
Édouard Manet
– Rejected by the
Salon
– Manet becomes hero
to nonconformist
– Greatly influenced
Monet and others
(He adopted the
Impressionist
approach about
1873)
– Impressionists
emerge
Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe
From Realism to Impressionism
• The Gleaners,
1857
• The Barbizon
School
• Realism w/o the
“drama” of
Romanticism
Impressionism
– concentration on the general
impression produced by a scene or
object
– the use of unmixed primary colors and
small strokes to simulate actual
reflected light.
– Principal Impressionist painters:
• Claude Monet
• Pierre Auguste Renoir
• Berthe Morisot
soleil
levant
Impressionism
Water Lillies, 1903
Monet’s Tulip Fields
Impressionism
• Monet’s Port at
Argenteuil
– Two common
Impressionist themes
• Leisure
• Industrial backdrop
Impressionism
Renoir’s
At the
Concert
Impressionism
– Edgar Degas (below)
– Paul Cézanne (right)
also painted in an
Impressionist style for a
time in the early 1870s.
Themes in Early Modern Art
1. Uncertainty/insecurity.
2. Disillusionment.
3. The subconscious.
4. Overt sexuality.
5. Violence & savagery.
Edvard Munch: The Scream (1893)
Expressionism
 Using bright colors to
express a particular
emotion.
 art that raises subjective
feelings above objective
observations.
Franz Marc: Animal Destinies (1913)
Wassily Kandinsky: On White II (1923)
Gustav Klimt:
Judith I (1901)
Vienna
Secessionists
 Disrupt the
conservative values of
Viennese society.
 Obsessed with the self.
 Man is a sexual being,
leaning toward despair.
 No “doctrine”: anything
goes
Gustav Klimt:
Wrogie sily
(1901)
Gustav Klimt: The Kiss (1907-8)
Gustav Klimt: Danae (1907-8)
Gustav Klimt: Adele Bloch-Bauer I
• Sold in 2006
• $135,000,000!!
Henri Matisse:
Carmelina
(1903)
FAUVE
 The use of intense
colors in a violent,
and uncontrolled way.
 “Wild Beast.”
Henri Matisse:
Open Window
(1905)
Georges Braque: Violin & Candlestick (1910)
CUBISM
 The subject matter is
broken down, analyzed,
and reassembled in
abstract form.
 Cezanne  The artist
should treat nature in
terms of the cylinder,
the sphere, and the
cone.
Georges Braque:
Woman with a
Guitar
(1913)
Georges Braque: Still Life: LeJeur (1929)
Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
(1907)
Picasso: Studio with Plaster Head (1925)
Pablo Picasso:
Woman with a
Flower
(1932)
Paul Klee: Red & White Domes (1914)
Paul Klee: Senecio (1922)
George Grosz
Grey Day
(1921)
Dadaism
 Ridiculed contemporary
culture & traditional
art forms.
 Nonsense, travesty,
incongruity.
 The collapse during
WW I of social and
moral values.
 Nihilistic.
Dadaism
• The First Dada Manifesto (Hugo Ball)
– July 14, 1916.
– 1. Dada is international in perspective and seeks to
bridge differences,
– 2. Dada is antagonistic toward established society in the
modern avant-garde, Bohemian tradition of the épater-lebourgeios (“to shock the middle class”) posture, and
– 3. Dada is a new tendency in art that seeks to change
conventional attitudes and practices in aesthetics,
society, and morality."
George Grosz:
Daum Marries
Her Pedantic
Automaton
George in May,
1920, John
Heartfield is Very
Glad of II
(1919-1920)
George Grosz
The Pillars
of Society
(1926)
Bourgeois Logic and Reason
Led to Destruction
Raoul Hausmann: ABCD (1924-25)
Marcel Duchamp: Fountain (1917)
DuChamp’s Mona Lisa
Marcel Duchamp:
Nude Descending
a Staircase
(1912)
Salvador Dali: Soft Construction with Boiled
Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936
Surrealism
 Late 1920s-1940s.
 Came from the nihilistic
genre of DaDa.
 Influenced by Freud’s
theories on
psychoanalysis and the
subconscious.
 Confusing & startling
images like those in
dreams.
Salvador Dali:
The Persistence of Memory (1931)
The Manifesto of Surrealism
• Andre Breton, 1924
• “based on the belief in the superior reality of
certain forms of association hitherto
neglected, in the omnipotence of the dream,
and in the disinterested play of thought.”
Salvador Dali
The Accommodation of Desire
Salvador Dali
The Apparition of the Face and
Salvador Dali: Geopoliticus Child Watching
the Birth of a New Man (1943)