Unit Sheet #22 Chapter 28 Impressionism And Post‐Impressionism

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Mont Sainte‐Victoire

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Name: Mont Sainte‐Victoire
Date: 1902‐1904
Period/Style: Post-Impressionism
Architect: Paul Cezanne
Patron: N/A
Original Location: N/A
Materials: Oil on canvas
Technique: Painting
Function: Replaced the transitory visual effects of changing atmospheric conditions
Context: The Impressionists' focus with careful analysis of the lines, planes, and colors of nature
Descriptive Terms: impressionism, atmospheric
Meaning: Immobilized the shifting colors of Impressionism into an array of clearly defined planes composing the objects and spaces in his scene.

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Basket of Apples

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Name: Basket of Apples
Date: 1895
Period/Style: Impressionism
Architect: Paul Cezanne
Patron: N/A
Original Location: N/A
Materials: Oil on canvas
Technique: Painting
Function: Reveals analytical approach to painting.
Context: Captured the solidity of bottles and fruit by juxtaposing color patches.
Descriptive Terms: abstract, plane
Meaning: Resulting abstract shapes are not optically realistic.

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Sleeping Gypsy

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Name: Sleeping Gypsy
Date: 1897
Period/Style: Symbolism
Architect: Henri Rousseau
Patron: Mrs. Simon Guggenheim
Original Location: N/A
Materials: Oil on canvas
Technique: Painting
Function:Depicted a doll-like but menacing lion sniffing at a recumbent dreaming figure in a mysterious landscape.
Context: Painting suggests vulnerable subconscious during sleep.
Descriptive Terms: landscape, foreground
Meaning: Compensated for his apparent visual, conceptual, and technical naiveté with a natural talent for design and an imagination teeming with exotic images of mysterious tropical landscapes.

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The Scream

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Name: The Scream
Date: 1893
Period/Style: Symbolism
Architect: Edvard Munch
Patron: N/A
Original Location: N/A
Materials: Tempera and pastels on cardboard
Technique: Painting
Function: Grounded in the real world.
Context: Departs significantly from visual reality.
Descriptive Terms: distortion
Meaning: Munch used color, line, and figural distortion to evoke a strong emotional response from the viewer.

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The Kiss

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Name: The Kiss
Date: 1907‐1908
Period/Style: Symbolism
Architect: Gustav Klimt
Patron: N/A
Original Location: N/A
Materials: Oil on canvas
Technique: Painting
Function: Opulent Viennese fin-de-sicle painting.
Context: Revealed only a small segment of each lover's body.
Descriptive Terms: geometrical shapes, undertones
Meaning: Rest of painting dissolves into shimmering, extravagant flat patterning.

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Ugolino and His Children

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Name: Ugolino and His Children
Date: 1865‐1897
Period/Style: Post-Impressionism
Architect: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Patron: N/A
Original Location: N/A
Materials: Marble
Technique: Sculpture
Function: Represented Ugolino biting his hands in despair as he and his sons await death by starvation.
Context: Twisted forms suggest the self-devouring torment of frustration.
Descriptive Terms: Renaissance, Baroque
Meaning: Count Ugolino and his four sons starve to death while shut up in a tower.

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Gates of Hell

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Name: Gates of Hell
Date: 1880‐1900
Period/Style: Post-Impressionism
Architect: Auguste Rodin
Patron: Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris
Original Location: Musee Rodin, Paris
Materials: Bronze
Technique: Sculpture
Function: Most ambitious work.
Context: Inspired by Dante's Inferno and Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise.
Descriptive Terms: Expressionist movements
Meaning: Presents nearly 200 tormented sinners in a relief.

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Casa Mila, Barcelona

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Name: Casa Mila, Barcelona
Date: 1907
Period/Style: Architecture and Decorative Arts
Architect: Antonio Gaudi
Patron: Art Nouveau
Original Location: Barcelona, Spain
Materials: N/A
Technique: Architecture
Function: Conceived as apartment house.
Context: As if it were a gigantic sculpture to be molded from clay.
Descriptive Terms: undulating roofs
Meaning: Twisting chimneys cap the undulating roof and walls.

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Eiffel Tower

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Name: Eiffel Tower
Date: 1889
Period/Style: Architecture and Decorative Arts
Architect: Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel
Patron: N/A
Original Location: Paris, France
Materials: N/A
Technique: Architecture
Function: New materials and technologies and the modernist aesthetic fueled radically new architectural designs in the late 19th century.
Context: Eiffel jolted the world with the exposed iron skeleton of his tower.
Descriptive Terms: horizontal girders
Meaning: France's anniversary gift to the United States-the Statue of Liberty by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi.

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Carson, Pirie, Scott Building

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Name: Carson, Pirie, Scott Building
Date: 1899‐1904
Period/Style: Architecture and Decorative Arts
Architect: Louis Henry Sullivan
Patron: N/A
Original Location: Chicago
Materials: Stew, Glass, and Stone
Technique: Architecture
Function: Sullivan's slogan was "form follows function."
Context: Tailored the design of this stew, glass, and stone Chicago department store to meet the needs of its employees and customers.
Descriptive Terms: elaborate frames
Meaning: Challenged traditional modes of expression, often emphatically rejecting the past.