Impressionism no response to political or military happenings Prefer genres scenes, leisure activities, entertainment and landscapes Influenced by Japanese prints Concerned with the natural properties of light, natural and artificial Rejected by the French Academy E Everyday life L Light B Brushstrokes O Outdoor settings W Weather and atmosphere
Interest in widening streets from medieval narrows to wide avenues, good for traffic flow and transporting manufactured goods. Redesign by Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann
Aerial of Paris Opera House; renovated by Jean-Louis-Charles Garnier in Baroque opulence
Entrance for carriages Emperor’s entrance Pedestrian entrance stage
Edouard Manet, Zola, exhibited 1868, oil on canvas videovideo
Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, , oil on canvas videovideo
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Moulin de la Galette, 1876, oil on canvas
Edgar Degas, Absinthe, 1876, oil on canvas
Edgar Degas, Visit to a Museum, 1885, oil on canvas Mary Cassatt and her sister
Edgar Degas, Dancing Lesson, oil on canvas
Degas, The Dance Class, 1874, video video
Degas, At the Races, oil on canvas
Eadweard Muybridge, Galloping Horse, 1878, Albumen Print
Mary Cassatt, Boating Party, , oil on canvas
Mart Cassatt, The Letter, 1891, etching and aquatint Utamaro’s Young Woman with Blackened Teeth
Mary Cassatt, The Coiffure, , drypoint and aquatint on laid paper Kitagawa Utamaro, Takashima Ohisa Using Two Mirrors to Observe Her Coiffure, c. 1795, woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Berthe Morisot, Cradle, 1873, oil on canvas
Claude Monet, Terrace at Sainte-Adresse, , oil on canvas
Monet, Waterlily Pond, 1904, oil on canvas
Monet suffered from Macular Degeneration which is evident in his use of color. His earlier works made when his sight was healthy are pastel and soft. As his sight waned, his work because darker and bolder because that is what he could see. Variations of Monet’s Japanese Bridge
Monet, Rouen Cathedral; Sunlight, Fog and Early Morning, 1894, oil on canvas
Claude Monet, The Saint-Lazare Station, 1877, oil on canvas videovideo
Renoir, Pont-Neuf, 1872, oil on canvas, 1872, oil on canvas
Camille Pissarro, Place du Theatre Francais, 1898, oil on canvas
Degas, Fourth Position Front, on the Left Leg, 1880’s, bronze
Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, , bronze, videovideo
Rodin, Balzac, , plaster Rodin, Balzac, after 1917, bronze
Winslow Homer, Breezing Up, , oil on canvas
Homer, Life Line, oil on canvas, 1884, videovideo
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold (Falling Rocket), 1875, oil on oak panel