realism, impressionism, post-impressionism symbolism

Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism Symbolism

19th century Reaction to Romanticism’s flight of

fantasy Photography

2 types 1. Daguerreo produced lightly detailed,

mirror like images on a metal plate 2. photography on paper was invented in

England by William Henry Talbot Depicted botanical specimens reproducing

works of art, and taking surveillance pictures in the dark

Realism

Daguerreo by Daguerre

Daguerreo by Daguerre

Daguerrerotype

Sculptural realism Rumors started that he was trying to

pass off a statue taken directly from plaster casts of a living model

Sculpted by hand “Age of Bronze”

Too lifelike

Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin

Rodin: The Age of Bronze

Rodin: Burghers of Calais

French artist Gustave Courbet realistic painter

Paintings were of real people who posed for him

Did not believe in painting souls or goddesses

When he was asked why he never painting angels he replied, “Show me an angel and I’ll paint one

“Show Me an Angel”

Gustave Courbet

Mädchen an der Seine

• “The Stonebreakers” 1849oil on canvas

Manet-Olympia Nude, seems unbothered by things/people People found it hard to understand Not goddess, but real model

Realism Scandal

Edouard Manet-Olympia, 1863

The unfinished, the complete, an act of instantaneous vision, a sensation rather than a perception

Stimulate by the new discoveries in science of optics, color theory, and nature of light, as well as recent knowledge about the physiology of the eye

Discovered when all of the colors of the spectrum are rotated, the eye sees them as white

Made discoveries about art in Nature No hard lines shadows take on color of objects

Ex. grass shadow in greenish Use primary colors to make the spectrum Impressionists invented a new method of visual

representation

Impressionism

Impressionism

Impressionism

Impressionist

Idea of creating a stream of suggestive ideas

Symbolists investigated recent discoveries in psychology

Left the connection, order, and form of their of their poetry inconclusive and fragmented

Reader was given plenty of room for use of their imagination (room for interpretation)

Symbolism

Impressionists left the mixing of color to the eye and the relationship of subject matter to the mind of the viewer

Symbolists left the connection, order, and form of their verbal still lifes to be completed by the reader

A combination of the senses, or an attempt to have one sense, such as sight, be stimulated by another sense

Chain reaction Tried to stimulate the capacity for new

and peripheral experiences Implies that the images are revelations of

something beyond sense data

Synesthesia

Symbolists explored “listening” to colors, “looking” at sounds, “savoring” perfumes, and all such mixtures of separate sensations

Synesthesia

Synesthesia, Sounds and Perfumes Turn in the Evening Air

Synesthesia

Philadelphia born painter Absorbed the tenets of Impressionist color and

atmospheric effects Added the dimension of fine drawing

Carefully controlled composition Worked with Parisian friend

Berthe Morisot Worked closely together with Impressionist

painter Helped create ideas generated by the movement

Cassatt often painted pictures of women’s activities

Pushed impressionism in a different direction from that represented by Monet and Renoir

Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt

Central figure of impressionism La Gare Saint Lazare

Renders the humid atmosphere, the mixture of steam and smoke, the hazy sunlight filtering from the open background and transparent ceiling glass

His figures are represented by thick dabs of paint Full development of Monet’s broke color technique

is seen clearly in Japanese Bridge at Giverny In order to capture a particular moment, Money

would paint a succession of canvases during a single day

Claude Monet

Monet

Monet, La Gare Saint Lazare

Monet, Japanese Bridge at Giverny

Monet, The Iris Garden at Giverny

Monet, Lady with Parasol

Later work was on the style of impressionism

Introduced a contemplative note in the figure

Rue Mosnier, Paris and Bar at the Folies-Bergere are examples of his work

Bar at the Folies-Bergere was his last large scale work and is a technical tour de force

Edouard Manet

Edouard Manet

Manet, Bar at the Folies-Bergere

Manet, Rue Mosnier

Manet, Rue Mosnier Flags

Depicted casual, light-hearted city scenes

Ex. gaslit evening at a popular Parisian café

Le Moulin de la Galette The Moulin was frequented by working

class families Use of full force Impressionist colors

Auguste Renoir

Renoir

Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette

Renoir Girl

Renoir Girl

Renoir Girl, Lorelai Gilmore

Coined in 1910 by the art of Roger Fry Differs from Impressionism

More psychological depth, emotional involvement, or aesthetic exploration

Ex. Starry Night, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Post-Impressionism

Vincent van Gogh, Starry NightPost-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism, Georges Seurat, Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Paul Gauguin, Day of the God

Post-Impressionist