Impressionism: the New Painting Art History September 13, 2007 Grade 12 Visual Arts Ms LeRoy
Neo Classicism: the old painting. David, The Oath of Horatii
French Realism Gustave Courbet, Burial at Ornans
Édouard Manet Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863
Manet’s Olympia
Titian’s Venus of Urbino
Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus
James M Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, 1875
James Abbott McNeil Whistler, Arrangement in Black and Gray (Portrait of the Artist’s Mother), 1871
Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1872
Monet’s Rouen Cathedral
Edgar Degas, Absinthe, 1876
Pierre-August Renoir, Le Moulin De La Galette, 1876
Mary Cassatt, Girl Arranging her Hair, 1886
Monet
IMPRESSIONISM Notes Early 1860s, France. Paris was still a medieval city up until the time when Napolean III (Boneparte’s nephew) proclaims himself ruler and appoints Baron Haussmann to modernize Paris for political and aesthetic reasons. Haussmann supervises urban design of drainage, sewers, clean water, bridges, fountains, public parks to discourage revolutionary activities and uprisings. Impressionism rejects Renaissance perspective, balanced composition, idealized figures and chiaroscuro Represented immediate visual sensations through colour and light Influenced by Japanese woodblock prints that were appearing on the market was interested in the effects of light and color based on observation, not interested in politics or religion "art for art's sake" (Whistler) used broken color, rather than flat Impressionism began in France with a group of artists interested in color Claude Monet was the leader of the Impressionist movement. He used diffused light and color to create composition Impression: Sunrise, 1872, oil on canvas.Impression: Sunrise one critic advised that small children or pregnant women should not see this work Period that lasted only 15 years