5.4.3 Impressionistic Painters
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Impressionism Gallery and discussion #1
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Claude Monet 1840-1926
- Painted the work that created the term Impressionism
- Loose brushstrokes
- Dabs of broken color
- Controlled compositions
- Painted the same subject numerous times
- Different time of day
- Different season
Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841-1919
- Painted People
- The middle class enjoying life, pleasure and entertainments
- Weekend outings
- A day at the races
- Boating
- Enjoying a garden
- Dancing
- Popular Work – Dance at the Moulin de la Galette
Edgar Degas 1834-1917
- Called the linear Impressionist
- Frequently depicted scenes from ballet
- Influenced by photography
- Spontaneous moment
- Severely cropped subject matter
- Popular Work – The Dancing Class
Berthe Morisot 1841-95
- Only woman to exhibit in the first Impressionist exhibit
- Considered the most radical of the Impressionists
- Very loose brush work
- Popular Work — The Cradle
Mary Cassatt 1844-1925
An American expatriate
- Very influenced by Japanese prints
- Called a madwoman because of her style
- Known for her depiction of women and babies
- Popular Work — Untitled
James Abbott McNeill Whistler 1834-1903
Also an American expatriate
- Lived in London
- Visited Paris
- Did not use the broken color, or light effects
- Popular work — Arrangement in Black and Gray: The Artist’s Mother
John Singer Sargent 1826-1925
Another American expatriate
- France, England, back to America
- Known for his portraits — including Theodore Roosevelt
- Popular Work — Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
Post-Impressionistic Painters
George Seurat 1859-91
- An intellectual and scientific approach to art
- Defined shapes and boundaries
- Balanced compositions
- Pointillism
- Popular Work — A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte
Paul Cézanne 1839-1906
- Considered the Father of Modern Art by some
- More order and structure in his paintings compared to Impressionism
- Created a objects by a series of small planes each with a specific color
- Washed his brush between each stroke to make each stroke distinct
- Pre-cursor to Cubism
- Popular work – Still Life with Peppermint Bottle
Vincent van Gogh 1853-90
Dutch, but lived in France
- Used color not to depict light, but rather to convey emotion
- Sometimes applied his paints with a palette knife, or squeezed directly from the tube on the canvas
- Supported by his brother, an art gallery owner
- Suffered from mental illness — emotional swings
- Never knew economic success
- Popular Work — Starry Night
Paul Gauguin 1848-1903
French — but moved to Tahiti
- Heightened color
- Flat forms
- Heavy Outlines
- Distortion of shapes and colors for symbolic purposes
- Popular Work — Manao Tupapau (Spirit of the Dead Watching)
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