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Characteristics of Impressionism
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- Single Moment
- En Plein Air - Short, uniform brushstrokes - Shallow space - no use of black (grays/darks achieved by mixing contrasting colors - no layerd work, colors blended right on canvas - Large use of natural light |
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Key 19th century changes
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- Pasteurization
- Sterilization - Vaccination ○ New Developments lead to longer life, healthier life - Religion questioned by science - Charles Darwin's Creative Evolution Theory - Authority challenged with new knowledge gained by the people - Social and economic struggles pitted against - Improvement in transportation and communication - New opinions spark competition |
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Barbizon School
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- Named after the village in France
- Positivists influenced impressionists - painted out doors - artist incourage to focus on the outdoors, people and places ex: Millet's "The Gleaners" |
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Salon de Refuse'
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- founded by Napolean
- special salon for rejected artists - Key piece of rejected work: Manet - Luncheon on the Grass |
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The Stone Breakers
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Artist: Courbet
Location: Destroyed - Consider first socialist painting - Workers creating modernism - Monochromatic - Machine-like |
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The Gleaners
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Artist: Millet
Location Musee d'Orsay, Paris - Depicts 3 women gathering grain at harvest time - Depicts extreme pverty even though colors are bright an warm - Critics originally thought millet tried to rekindle sympathies and passions of 1848 and was labled a realist - Millet found the peasants heroic acceptance of the human conditon exemplary |
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3rd Class Carriage
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Artist: Daumier
Location: National Gallery of Canada - Depicts inside of a large horse-drawn bus - From the persepctive of the poor section - Though the mother, daughter and 2 grandchildren look close to each other, you can feel and see the physical/mental seperation between them and the upper class sitting behind them. ○ Granmother wearing hood up ○ Boy sleeping ○ Upper-class section seems as if they are all engaged in the same convo - Triangular - Visible brush strokes |
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Luncheon on the Grass
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Artist: Manet
Location: Musee d' Orsay, Paris - controversial painting - Nude female with two clothed males - Did it to exercise artistic freedom - Non-academic painting - Went against critics standards - One piece that was hung in the "Salon de Refuse" - No communication, all subjects arent paying attention to each other - Photographic Light - Direct illumination on subjects |
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Olympia
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Artist: Manet
Location: Musee d'Orsay - Scandalous because women subject is looking right at viewer - She is also an everyday subject - Lower class life - Prostitute - Upfront confrontation with subject matter |
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3 Main Social Relism artists
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Millet
Daumier Courbet |
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7 Main Impressionist Artists
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Casatt
Cezanne Degas Manet Monet Renoir Seurat |
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