1. Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts

2. A Real Impression

3. Joseph Decker Green Plums, c. 1885 Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon 1994.59.4

4. Still Life with Peaches Artist: Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer) Date: 1881 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 21 x 25 1/2 in. (53.3 x 64.8 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960 Accession Number: 61.101.12

5. What’s in a Movement?

6. John La Farge The Last Valley - Paradise Rocks, 1867-1868 Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel Fund 2000.144.1

7. The Valley of the Nervia Artist: Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny) Date: 1884 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 26 x 32 in. (66 x 81.3 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915 Accession Number: 30.95.251

8. Move in Closer

9. The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest Artist: Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny) Date: 1865 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 37 7/8 x 50 7/8 in. (96.2 x 129.2 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Gift of Sam Salz and Bequest of Julia W. Emmons, by exchange, 1964 Accession Number: 64.210

10. View near Rouen Artist: Richard Parkes Bonington (British, Arnold, Nottinghamshire 1802–1828 London) Date: ca. 1825 Medium: Oil on millboard Dimensions: 11 x 13 in. (27.9 x 33 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Purchase, Gift of Joanne Toor Cummings, by exchange, 2001 Accession Number: 2001.45

11. Behind the Movement

12. J. M. W. Turner’s Keelmen Heaving Coal by Moonlight

13. Eugene Delacroix’s 1846 The Abduction of Rebecca, a scene taken from Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel Ivanhoe

14. Sharpening your Eye

15. Note: Many paintings contain elements of more than one movement. For example, there may be elements of Realism among the Romantics or the Impressionists, so students shouldn’t focus on searching for a pure or perfect example of each movement. Instead, concentrate on which movement is the best fit for each painting and why. It might help to know the time periods of each of these movements, so that you might better understand that some of these movements were overlapping or very close in time period: – Romanticism: Early 1800s until around 1850 – Realism: Around 1840 until the late 19th century – Impressionism: In France: 1874 to about 1890; In America: mid- 1870s to the early 1910s

16. Thomas Eakins’ The Biglin Brothers Racing

17. John-Baptiste-Camille Corot’s The Eel Gatherers

18. Andre Derain’s Palace of Westminster

19. Thomas Cole’s The Voyage of Life: Youth

20. Edgar Degas’ The Dance Class

21. Gustave Courbet’s Le Bretonnerie in the Department of Indre

22. Winslow Homer’s Breezing Up a Fair Wind

23. John Constable’s The White Horse

24. Mary Cassatt’s Little Girl in a Blue Armchair