1. A Revolution in Color & Style Art in La Belle Epoque [1871-1914]:

2. Impressionism

3. Impressionism: An Overview 1862-1866 Began in France started by rebellious art students at same studio Rejected the traditional style of painting (Renaissance style) Blasted by contemporary critics & considered dangerous to the viewer

4. Characteristics of Impressionism: GOAL create an “impression”  Portray immediate visual sensations of a scene  Color of object changes constantly according to effects of light, reflection & weather New Painting Techniques:  Short, choppy brushstrokes  Mosaic of irregular daubs of color throbbing w/ energy  Shadows composed of many colors (rejected black & gray) LOOK a new perspective:  Unintelligible up close  From a distance, the viewer’s eyes fuse streaks of color into intense hues Subjects Outdoors, seaside, Parisian streets & cafés

5. A Revolution in the Arts: Impressionism broke all the rules!!!  Painted in open air  Use of light & color as form  No discernible narrative content  Natural landscapes (not artificially arranged)  Composition is non-existent Est. artists right to experiment w/ personal style Let the light of nature & modern life blaze through the shadowy traditions of centuries Set the standard for the next century 20 th c. artists either extended their practice or reacted against it

6. Claude Monet “Impression: Sunrise” (1872) The painting that gave the movement its name!

7. Claude Monet “Waterlilies” Series (1899-1916)

8. Claude Monet Rouen Cathedral Series (1890s) West Façade in Sunlight West Façade at Sunset

9. Edouard Manet “A Bar at the Folies-Bergér” (1882)

10. Pierre Auguste Renoir “Luncheon at the Boating Party” (1880-81)

11. Edgar Degas “Glass of Absinthe” (1876)

12. Edgar Degas’s Ballerinas Prima Ballerina (c.1876) The Dance Class (1874) Little Dancer – Sculpture (1874)

13. Women Impressionists Mary Cassatt, The Caress (1902) Berthe Morisot, The Cradle (1872)

14. Post- Impressionism

15. Post-Impressionism: An Overview 1880 - 1905 Began in France Influenced by Impressionism, but different:  Sinuous lines instead of blurred haze  Solid, rainbow-bright colors  Emphasis on how the tormented mind understands the world Movement split into two factions:  Formal, near-scientific design (Seurat & Cezanne)  Expression of emotions & sensations through color & light (Lautrec, Van Gogh, Gaugin)

16. Georges Seurat “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” (1884-86) “pointillism” = the dot-theory

17. Paul Cézanne : The Flowers & Fruit Guy Mont Saint-Victoire (1902-04) Still Life with Apples and Oranges (1895-1900)

18. Paul Cézanne “Large Bathers” (1906) His Later nudes modeled on paintings by Rubens & El Greco

19. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec “At the Moulin Rouge” (1892) Parisian cabaret nightlife & publicity posters

20. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Graphic Arts

21. Paul Gaugin “La Orona Maria” (1892) Tahitian version of the Annunciation

22. The Mad Monk of Post-Impressionism: Vincent Van Gogh Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (1887) Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear (1889)

23. Vincent Van Gogh “Starry Night” (1889)

24. Vincent Van Gogh “The Bedroom” (1889)

25. Early Expressionism

26. Early Expressionism: An Overview Emerged in late 1880s (term Expressionism coined in 1911) Influenced by Cézanne & Van Gogh Used bright colors & jarring shapes to express inner FEELINGS! Different types of Early Expressionism:  Symbolism – focused on inner world of fantasy  Les Fauvres (Fauvists) – distorted, flat forms & perspective; Intense bright, clashing colors Began in Paris w/ Fauvism,but prospered in Germany & developed all over Europe after WWI

27. Edvard Munch: The Inspiration The Scream (1893) The Sin (1901)

28. Henri Rousseau “The Sleeping Gypsy” (1897) An example of Symbolism

29. André Derain “Big Ben” (1905) An example of Fauvism

30. Henri Matisse: Master of Fauvism The Green Stripe (1909) Dance I (1909)

31. Cubism

32. Cubism : An Overview 1907-1914 Influenced by Paul Cézanne & African art Invented by artists Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque Got its name from a Matisse criticism of a Braque landscape as nothing but “little cubes”. Created the first abstract way to picture the world  Broke objects into multitude of pieces (kaleidoscope)  Suggested feelings through neutral color & geometric forms The TWO types of Cubism  Ananlytical (1907-11) – makes an abstract depiction of the real world (Picasso & Braque)  Synthetic (1911-1914) – uses bits of the real world to build up a new representation (Gris & Léger)

33. Pablo Picasso “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907) The most influential painting of the 20 th c.

34. Pablo Picasso “Studio with a Plaster Head” (1929)

35. Pablo Picasso “Woman with a Flower” (1932)

36. Pablo Picasso “Guernica” (1937) Picasso’s Greatest Masterpiece

37. Pablo Picasso: Cubist Portraits Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910) Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (1910)

38. George Braque Harbor at Normandy (1909) Violin and Candlestick (1910)

39. Juan Gris Sunblind (1914) Violin & Glass (1915)

40. Ferdinand Lêger The Bargeman (1918) The Mechanic (1920)

41. Sculpture & Architecture

42. Auguste Rodin: The First Modern Sculptor The Age of Bronze (1876) The Thinker (1879-89) The Kiss (1886)

43. Early Modern Architecture: Architecture for an Industrial Age Eiffel Tower (Paris) (1889) Hector Guimard Entrance to the Metro (Paris) Art Noveau style (c.1900) Louis Sullivan Carson-Pirie- Scott Department Store (Chicago) (1899-1904)