Year 12 Art History there is one main topic : Towards Modernism ( ) Year 12 Art History there is one main topic : Towards Modernism ( )
Towards Modernism involves covering the following movements Neo-classicism – David, Ingres, Canova Romanticism - Gericault, Delacroix Realism - Courbet, Millet, Daumier, Rodin Impressionism - Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cassatt, Morisot Neo-impressionism - Seurat, Signac Post-impressionism - van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne Art Nouveau and Architectural Revivalism
Our focus is predominantly of 19 century French art, beginning with the French Revolution in the late 18 century …
Neo-classicism Jacques-Louis David Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Jacques-Louis David The Death of Marat 1793
We review movements like Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism.
Romanticism Delacroix Liberty Leading the People, 1830 Romanticism Delacroix Liberty Leading the People, 1830
Realism Jean-François Millet The Gleaners,1857
We analyse the work of artists like Monet, Degas, Gauguin and Van Gogh.
We also analyse the work of sculptors such as Canova and Rodin. Canova Theseus and the Minotaur
Rodin The Kiss
And study how old Paris was transformed Rue de Lorcine A view of the streets of old Paris.
The façade and layout for new apartment building on Haussmann's boulevards. Out with the old and in with the new The new Paris -Haussmann's "grands boulevards."
Architectural developments The Eiffel Tower Art Nouveau
The London Exhibition Hall (aka Crystal Palace ), 1851, London
Realism Edouard Manet, Olympia, This was considered pornographic when it was exhibited.
Impressionism Claude Monet Boulevard des Capucines 1873 This painting was one of 165 in the first Impressionist Exhibition, 1874
Auguste Renoir The Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881
Edgar Degas The Absinthe Drinker (or ‘Absinthe’), 1876 This painting also caused quite a controversy when it was exhibited
Edgar Degas Dancers in the Rehearsal Room with a Double Bass 1882–85
Claude Monet The Bridge with Waterlilies
Post Impressionism Vincent Van Gogh, Night Café, 1888
Paul Gauguin Spirit of the dead watching, 1892
Paul Cezanne A Modern Olympia c