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Ernest Meissonier, The Siege of Paris, 1870

-Small oil study

-Combination of realism and impressionism


-Allegorical figure in the middle representing Paris

Claude Monet, Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, 1873

-Busy street

-Arrangement of people changes because the peoplemove


-Not using linear perspective – elevatedviewpoint

Camille Pissarro, Hoarfrost: The Old Road to Emery, Pontoise, 1873

-Doesn’t quite look like he’s in the cycle of poverty

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Loge, 1874

-The middle class finally have enough money to have leisure time

-She has this gaze. Called the gaze


-Painting about looking. Not watching the opera

Edgar Degas, A Carriage at the Races, 1870-72

-Very small painting

-in the first impressionist exhibition in 1874


-difficulty deciding what the subject of this painting is


-doesn’t focus enough on the people for it to be a portrait


-very low horizon line

Thomas Eakins, The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake, 1873

-Critical part of the race, where they turnaround

Edgar Degas, The Rehearsal, c. 1878

-Just see her leg, so weird

-Somewhat Japanese


-Bright orange, blue and yellow

Claude Monet, Gare St.-Lazare, Paris, 1877

-Trains are important because it’s a route out of the city

-Loves the way that the smokes collect

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, 1875

-Dominated by mood and suggestion

-Musical piece that evokes a feeling a nighttime(nocturne)


-Fireworks at a park in London

Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street: Rainy Weather, 1877

-famous, apparently

-Expertly laid out

Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1881-82

-Engaging with a young bartender

-Don’t know what’s going on in her head


-What’s going on around her


-Mirror behind her and everything seems a bit off because it doesn’t look like the right reflection


-Are we the guy?


-Manet can make up whatever he wants

Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic, 1875

-Paint what he actually saw

-Was too graphic, apparently

Mary Cassatt, The Blue Room, 1878

-Rejected

-All the furniture is cropped. She didn’t have to do that but she did


-Lack of balance


-Lack of narrative

John Singer Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882

-Capture the characteristics of an age

-Las meninas


-Huge Japanese ceramic vases

Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Apples, c. 1875-77

-Simultaneously 2D and 3D

-Making you acknowledge that it’s made of paint -Outlines


-Modeling, shadows being cast


-Is the base wood? Fabric? We know it’s paint

Paul Cézanne, Five Bathers, 1885-87

-No context

-Like Bouguereau—expect Bouguereau has let us know they are Nymphs


-The subject matter isn’t anything new


-Can’t see depth

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Nymphs Bathing, 1878


Georges Seurat, A Sunday on the Grande-Jatte—1884, 1884-86

-On the banks of the Seine

-Suburban leisure


-Far from impressionistic because it’s not a spontaneous moment in time. Clearly studied


-They are all people he saw and studied and then put them all together in a balanced, academic way


-So not impressionistic to have so many studies

Georges Seurat, La Parade, 1888

-innovative formality and symmetry

Georges Seurat, Le Chahut, 1889-90


-modulation of light and shadows

Jules Marey, Running Man, 1886


Vincent van Gogh, The Potato Eaters, 1885

-Dutch feel coming form Rembrandt

-Meager food, dirty surroundings, simple lighting

Fritz von Uhde, “Come Jesus, Be Our Guest,” 1885

-Christians saw it as a "desecration" of Christ

Vincent van Gogh, Interior of a Restaurant, 1887

-Gone to Paris, seen the impressionists, seen Seurat

Vincent van Gogh, The Sower, 1888

-His brush stroke has no system

-Looking back to Millet’s famous Sower

Vincent van Gogh, The Night Café at Arles, 1888


James Ensor, The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889, 1888

-precursor to expressionism

August Strindberg, Celestographs, 1894


Max Klinger, The Abduction (from A Glove), 1881

-Synesthetic experience – senses through other senses

-The frame isn’t even broken on the window

Odilon Redon, The Marsh Flower: A Sad, Human Face, from Homage to Goya, 1885

-symbolist

Émile Bernard, Buckwheat Harvesters, Pont-Aven, 1888


Paul Gauguin, Yellow Christ, 1889


Paul Gauguin, Ia Orana Maria (Ave Maria),1889

-Most famously goes to Tahiti

-Mix of island religion and typical Christian religion

Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, 1897

-This was supposed to be his suicide note, expect his suicide didn’t take

-Cycle of life

Fernand Khnopff, I Lock the Door Upon Myself, 1891

-Orange lilies have a Japanese placement

-Poppy—sleep


-Lots of ambiguity


-Sleep? Is this a dream?

Frederic Leighton, Flaming June, 1895

-alludes to figures of sleeping nymphs

-The toxic oleander branch in the top right symbolizes the fragile link between sleep and death

F. Holland Day, Study for the Crucifixion, c. 1898


Édouard Vuillard, The Workroom, 1893

-Looking at his mother's work

-The different patterns laid on top of each other

Pierre Bonnard, Four Panels for a Screen, 1891-92

-worked from memory

-dreamlike quality

Ferdinand Hodler, The Chosen One, 1893-94

-What religion is this?

-His son


-parallelism

Edvard Munch, Death in the Sick Room, c. 1894

-pantomime of fixed postures signify various emotions

-figures appear to play roles on a theatre stage


-men and women began to appear more symbolic than realistic.

Edvard Munch, Madonna,1895

-from a series of paintings describing life form young to old age

Aubrey Beardsley, Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, 1893

-emphasize the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic

Edvard Munch, The Dance of Life, 1899-1900

-final painting in his series about life and death

Auguste Bartholdi, Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), 1875-84


Paul Dubois, Military Courage, 1876


Edgar Degas, Little Dancer Fourteen Years Old, 1881


Jules Dalou, The Triumph of the Republic, 1879-89


Auguste Rodin, The Age of Brass, 1875-77


Auguste Rodin, Torso, 1877-78


Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell, 1880-1900


Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, 1885-95


Vincenzo Vela, The Victims of Labor, 1883


Constantin Meunier, Stevedore, 1885


Frederic Leighton, Athlete Wrestling with a Python, 1874-77


Auguste Rodin, The Man with the Broken Nose, 1862


Claude Monet, Impression:Sunrise, 1872

-Where the name Impressionism comes from

-Monet’s ultimate acceptance of painting in the study style, but calling it a finished painting

Daniel Chester French, The Minute Man, 1874


Edgar Degas, Place de la Concorde, 1875

-This painting really categorizes his work

-Figure is cut off


-The whole background is yellow with no diagonal lines...can’t tell where space is


-Being surrounded by lots of people but being connected to no one

Eadweard Muybridge, Horse in Motion, 1878

-Important to the realists to show how a horse galloped

Mary Cassatt, At the Opera, 1879

-using opera glasses to examine the audience, while she herself is being spied upon by another gentleman in the audience

-various types of gaze within a painting

Arnold Böcklin, Isle of the Dead, 1880

-desolate and rocky islet seen across an expanse of dark water

-one little rowboat, the only hope

Gustave Eiffel, Eiffel Tower, 1887-1889


Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon, 1888

-Symbolism

-Viewer plays a significant role

Paul Gauguin, Self-Portrait with Halo, 1889

- religious symbolism and the stylistic influence of Japanese wood-block prints

Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889


Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, Afternoon, 1894

-Subject isn’t the cathedral, but light itself

Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Plaster Cupid, 1895

-Where the fxck is that green apple? This is supposed to be on the floor

-He’s denying our expectations of perspective

Albert Pinkham Ryder, Death on a Pale Horse, 1896-98


Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, c. 1900

-It becomes something that he studies and paints a lot

-Japanese tree – not a typical western style


-Very clear recession back into space


-Reintroduction of the canvas – it’s a violent shock to people


-Everything is on top of each other