BELL RINGER M Socrative com Room 38178 Questions

BELL RINGER • M. Socrative. com – Room 38178 • Questions: • 1. What do we call small color patches? • 2. What do we call a group of paintings that work together or have a common theme?

POST-IMPRESSIONISM ART

POST-IMPRESSIONISM • Impressionism evolved into a collection of different styles called “postimpressionism” • In subject matter, post impressionist paintings were similar to impressionist paintings – landscapes, familiar portraits, groups, and café and nightclub sceenes • The post-impressionists gave their subject matter a complex and profoundly personal significance

POST IMPRESSIONISM • The post-impressionists were deeply concerned about capturing sensory experience • They were more interested in their paintings as flat surfaces – carefully composed of shapes, lines, and colors (very different form impressionists) • They rarely attempted to sell their works

POST-IMPRESSIONISM • Post-impressionism called for a return to form and structure • Characteristics they believed were lacking in their impressionist counterparts • They structured their paintings around traditional elements • They brought formal patterns to the canvas and sought to return painting to traditional goals • They used clean color areas and applied color in a systematic/scientific manner

GEORGES SEURAT • 1859 -1891 • Often described as a “neo-impressionist” • He called his technique “divisionism” • His patient and systematic application of specks of paint is called pointillism • Paint is applied with the point of the brush, one small dot at a time

SEURAT’S A SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON THE ISLAND OF LA GRANDE JATTE

SEURAT’S A SUNDAY AFTERNOON… • Show attention to perspective, and yet feels flat and avoids 3 dimensionality

SEURAT’S A SUNDAY AFTERNOON… • Color areas are fairly uniform and outline is continuous

SEURAT’S DIE SEINE AN DER GRAND JATTE

SEURAT’S EIFFEL TOWER

VINCENT VAN GOGH • 1853 -1890 • His intense emotionalism in pursuing form was unique • He shared his personal feelings in his paintings • His turbulent life included numerous short-lived careers, impossible love affairs, and serious mental illness – he shares very personal and subjective artistic viewpoints • Monday we’ll watch a short movie on him (1 class)

VINCENT VAN GOGH • Had an interest in complimentary colors (colors across from each other on the color wheel) • Did not apply colors in small dots, instead, placed large color areas side by side • The brushwork in the foreground is active while the background strokes are smooth

VAN GOGH’S STARRY NIGHT

VAN GOGH’S SELF-PORTRAIT

VAN GOGH’S VASE WITH 12 SUNFLOWERS

VAN GOGH • Tomorrow we’ll watch a short documentary about Van Gogh where you will explore his story, artworks, and methods.

CUBISM • The years between 1901 and 1912 witnessed an emerging approach to pictorial space called cubism • Cubist space violated all usual concepts of two- and three-dimensional perspective • Until this time, the space within a composition had been thought of as an entity separate from the main subject of the work – if the subject were removed, the space would remain unaffected. • Picasso changed that

PABLO PICASSO • 1881 -1973 • In his view, the artist should paint “not objects, but the space they engender. ” • The area around an object became an extension of the object itself – if the object were removed, the space around it would collapse • Cubist space is typically quite shallow and reaches forward toward the viewer

PABLO PICASSO • Developed as a result of experimentation • At this time, Einstein was exploring ideas involved with the time-space continuum • Not sure if Picasso was inspired by theory of relativity, but it did at least make his work more acceptable

PABLO PICASSO • 1901 -1905 – Picasso’s Blue Period, oppressed subjects appeared in his paintings, dominated by blue tones • The Guitar Player

PABLO PICASSO • 1904 -1906 – Picasso’s Rose Period, he became more concerned with make believe, had paintings of circus performers, etc. • Family of Saltimbanques

PICASSO’S 3 MUSICIANS

PICASSO’S VIOLIN & GUITAR

PICASSO’S “STYLE” The background merges with the subject – almost like pieces of a puzzle, you need every piece

ACTIVITY! • We haven’t colored in awhile… • On the table are a number of small pictures – pick ONE • Turn it into a pointillism style painting – using the markers (instead of paint and brushes) fill the pictures with several small dots side by side • I will grade these and hang them up • Make sure you put your name on your completed picture (in one corner)