Neoclassisim Romanticism Realism Impressionism Post-Impressionism

 1780-1820 Words

associated with this period-virtue; patriotism; Tone: calm, rational Technique: stressed drawing with lines not color, smooth surface and glossy, no trace of brushstrokes ordered grids,

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Order, solemnity Subjects:

Greek & Roman History Role of Art: Morally uplifting, inspirational Founder & leader of movement: David French & British Academies behind, preached that reason, not emotion, should dictate art
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Jacque Louis David 1784 Louvre, Paris, France

 Dramatic, emotional, violent

energy; Themes-liberty power of nature; compare/associations to Baroque history repeats itself

 Imaginative

idealized creations Values: Intuition, Emotion, Imagination Inspiration: Medieval & Baroque eras, Middle and Far East Tone: Subjective, spontaneous, nonconformist

 Color:

color Subjects: Legends,exotica, nature, violence Genres: Narratives of heroic struggle, landscapes, wild animals Technique: Quick brushstrokes, strong light-and-shade contrasts Composition: Use of diagonals

Unrestrained, deep rich shades of

 Gericault

(Raft of the Medusa, 1818) & Delacroix (Liberty Leading the People, 1830)

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 Photo

realism; tromp loeil-fool the eye Ultra realistic painting, American painter Harnett

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 Unadulterated

rendering; poor people in everyday situations; landscapes

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 Courbet, the

father of the Realist

movement Portrayed drab figures at everyday tasks First one man show, when rejected by an art jury built a shed to show his painting Interior of My Studio Burial of Ornans, The Stone Breakers,
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 Courbet Corot Millet, Barbazon

School

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 Winslow Eakins

Homer

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McNeil Whistler Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, 1872, Muse dOrsay, Paris Nocturn in Black and Gold: the Falling Rocket, 1875

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called the Father of Modern Art 1832-1883 Never exhibited with the Impresionists Striped away idealizing mythology to portray modern life candidly Sketchy brushwork-images appear flat and hard

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 Painting

grounds Indecent because the nude was not idealized (nudity was only acceptable if disguised in Classical trappings) Based on historic art precedent, Giorgione, Titian, Brushstrokes, applied in broad strokes

offended on moral and aesthetic

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plein air-Paint outside Concerned with effects of light; Dabs of pure color painted side by side Viewers eye blends the colors Shadows not black but blends of colors Country, City associated with Impressionism-France, Paris

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 Japanese

prints and new tool influenced Impressionists; cropping-cutting off Camera/photography

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 Grouped

together because of way painted and concern for light Purpose; to portray immediate visual sensations of a scene Impressionists: Manet, Monet. Renior, Degas Also: Pizzaro, Sisley, Marisot, Casatt 1862-1886

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 Outdoors, seaside, Parisian

streets and cafes

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 Grouped

together because making art at the same time- but not because of similar style 1880-1905 Post Impressionists: Seurat, ToulouseLautrec, Cezanne, Gauguin, van Gogh

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 Small

dots of pure color on canvas, Seurat Pointillists Textural paint, sick man van Gogh Reduce to basic shapes: cone, cylinder, Cezanne

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 Cezanne

liberated art from reproducing reality by reducing reality to its basic compositions Cylinder, sphere, cone To create illusions of depth placed cool colors like blue, which seem to recede, at rear and warm colors like red, which seem to advance, in front ( Mt. St. Victoire, 1902)
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