-: February 2012

MANET- LE DÉJEUNER SUR L'HERBE 1863

- displayed at the Salon de refuses 1963, after it was rejected by the Salon Jury for being too obscene

EDOUARD MANET, OLYMPIA 1863

- A translation from REALISM TO IMPRESSIONISM

- Shown in the 1865 Paris Salon, causing mass controversy ( provocative gaze of the model )

CLAUDE MONET, IMPRESSIONIST SUNRISE 1872

- 1872 Salon, official begging of Impressionism. Followed by the Impressionism exhibit in 1874 like crew stylez via Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Pierre - Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Berthe Mousot, Mary Cassat.

- Lighter palates, broken brushworks depicting contemporary life and landscapes.

- Colour chances could be sensed in the pallate through changes in weather conditions eg, day, time, season ie. Change tracked through natural phenomenon.

- Au Plaine Air

CLAUDE MONET THE BRIDGE OF ARGENTEUIL 1874

- A new bridge, iron and concrete materials which had replaed the old bridge after it was destroyed in the war.

- Monet painted of his time, as he did not portray a nostalgic visual of the old bridge.

- Paint became a material ON the canvas, 2D through the paint ON THE CANVAS.

MANET - A BAR AT THE FOLIES- BERGERIE 1881

- Impressionistic outlook, esp through the sparkling depiction of light through reflection.

- Illuminating the impression of the space.

- Debate as to weather the background is a mirror or a non mirror

RENOIR MOULIN DE LA GALETTE 1876

- Light sources are again, of interest. Movement is depicted as blur.

- Social politics are in place in the image, as the painting depicts the proletarian in a form of leisure in a dance hall "The everyday spectacle of the working class city "

- Strong link to realism

DEGAS BALLERINA AND LADY WITH A FAN 1885

- Shocking to see the bodies cut off by the edge of the canvas, as it was defying a 500 year old tradition implaced by the realism of the renaissance.

- Textures of paint on canvas pushed painting away from realism, moving towards more of a photo reality through the concept of capturing a fleeting moment with a dab of paint.

BERTHE MORISOT CATCHING BUTTERFLIES 1873

- Comparable to Mary Cassat's The Bath of 1892

- Verging middle-class, parks and outdoor cafes

MARY CASSAT MOTHER AND CHILD 1905

- Female impressionist, depicting the domestic attributes of femininity

MARY CASSAT WOMAN IN BLACK AT THE OPERA 1879

- Private/ public settings, usually confined

- Reverses the concept of ' The Gaze '

SEURAT, BATHERS AT ASNIERS 1884

- Seurat pushed his academic traditional painting style into a form of Modern Art, after studying at Ecole Des Beaux Arts, hence the numerous prep sketches he completed before starting his painting.

- He depicts working class civilians relaxing by the Seine

- His work often shares affinities with the impressionists due to his application of paint, also due to his subject matter including people dancing, drinking and relaxing ( usually in the form of workers at rest)

- He is classified as a post-impressionist, as he exists and consists of a major prep

SEURAT, A SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON THE ISLAND OF LA GRANDE JATTE 1884

- Surat displays a large interest in the colour and light

- La Grande Jatte is a collision of the past into the present, and displays a sense of harmony

- A theme of irony is present, as the painting depicts picnickers as monumental figures, emphasizing timelessness, yet still very contemporary and up to date.

- He depicts two figures that are over dressed, poking fun at the over display.

SEURAT

Bathers at Asineres ≠ A Sunday Afternoon on the Grande Jatte

( Celebration of Proletarian Leisure ) ≠ ( A Critique of Bourgeois Fashion )

- Seurat was famous for coining pointillism, or chromo- luminarism, in the technique of employing a point or a small dot to create colour.

CEZANNE STILL LIFE WITH BASKET OF APPLES 1895

- Dubbed the prophet of 20th century art

- Cezanne wanted to express the world in a divergence of impressionism with something more solid

- He used platonic solids, spheres, cylinders

- His strategically placed dishtown adds an element of dynamism, paintings were very flat, adding a sense of dynamism

- Cezanne also uses a very ambiguous sense of space, it becomes very abstract.

- Probably the beginnings of Cubism and abstract art.

CEZANNE MONT SAINTE VICTORIE 1900

- Anthromorphized giant mountain, taking a human form.

- The artists face is apparently depicted in the trees

- The cubic brush strokes, also the rectangular shape of the mountain lead up to Cubism

- The impulse of abstraction is present in the work

CEZANNE THE LARGE BATHERS 1906

- Cezanne died while painting this piece

- It was painted in a representation of traditional painting

- There was an emphasis of harmony in the image

- Theme of primitivism

- LARGE bathers because there are smaller bathing paintings by Cezanne, this one is 7 x 8 ft hence the largeness

- Purchased in 1937 for $110, 000 by Joseph E. Widener

PAUL GAUGIN SELF PORTRAIT WITH HALO 1889

- Hints at symbolism, ultimate reality that transcended physical appearance

- The work of art should screen from the artist, in the form of the spirit

- The symblist manifesto in 1886, in relation to visual art by Albert Aurier in 1892, " The painting of ideas "

ANDRE DERAIN LONDON BRIDGE 1906

- Met Matisse at Academie Camillo, where they fused and later worked together as Les Fauves after Matisse convinced Derain's parents to let him abandon his carreer as an engineer.