1. IMPRESSIONISM (1870s- 1880s) 1. Captured a moment in time, slice of life 2. Interested in fleeting effects of light on color 3. Used short, choppy brushstrokes to capture a moment 4. Avoided use of black 5. Cropped at edges to imitate photography 6. Depicted leisure activities of Parisian bourgeoisie 7. Influenced by Japanese woodblock prints 8. Criticized by traditional academic painters 8. Criticized by traditional academic painters

2. series of paintings showing a subject at various times Monet

3. portraits and slices of French life Renoir

4. cityscapes capture bourgeois life Pissarro

5. dancers, horse races and portraits Degas

6. garish colors, elevates the status of poster art Lautrec

7. American Impressionist, mentored by Degas Cassatt

8. CLAUDE MONET, Saint-Lazare Train Station, 1877. Oil on canvas

9. MARY CASSATT, The Bath, ca. 1892. Oil on canvas,

10. HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, At the Moulin Rouge, 1892–1895

11. EDGAR DEGAS, Ballet Rehearsal, 1874. Oil on canvas,

12. POST-IMPRESSIONISM- 1890s Influenced by, but dissatisfied with Impressionism Impressionists were too tied to natural world--only painted what they saw Wanted to restore line and solid colors

13. Pioneer of pointillism or divisionism Theory of optical mixing based on work of Chevreul Most famous work-A Sunday on the Grande Jatte Seurat

14. Rejected artistic traditions of Western civilization Influenced by "primitive" cultures-Tahiti Used flat planes of color to express feelings Paul Gauguin

15. Used color and brush strokes to express his feelings Color reflects moods-for example, yellow is happy Influenced the Expressionists Vincent Van Gogh

16. Capture the underlying structure of objects and nature Restore formal elements: the use of color and shape Series of paintings of Mont Sainte- Victoire Paul Cezanne

17. VINCENT VAN GOGH, The Night Café, 1888. Oil on canvas

18. PAUL CÉZANNE, The Basket of Apples, ca. 1895. Oil on canvas,

19. PAUL GAUGUIN, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, 1897. Oil on canvas

20. GEORGES SEURAT, A Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Jatte, 1884-1886. Oil on canvas, 6’ 9”x10’. Art Institute of Chicago