Contextual Studies 2 The Birth of Modern Art

Contextual Studies 2 The Birth of Modern Art

Claude Monet, The Water Lily Pond, 1900

Claude Monet, Haystacks, 1891

Camille Pissaro, Boulevard Montmartre, 1897

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876

Monet, La Grenouillere, 1869

Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1873

Monet, The Boulevard des Capucines, 1873

Gustave Courbet, The Desperate Man 2 (Self portrait) c. 1845

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Louise de Broglie, 1845

Alexandre Cabanel, The Birth of Venus, 1863

Paul Delaroche, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 1850

Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849

Courbet, Peasants Returning from the Fair at Ornans, 1855

Courbet, The Artist’s Studio, 1855

Courbet, Good Morning Mr Courbet, 1854

Paul Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1904/5

Cezanne, Mont Sainte Victoire, 1896/8

Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1906

Braque, Viaduct at l’Estaque, 1909

Painting from nature is not copying the object, it is realising one’s sensations. Paul Cezanne

Mark Rothko

Joan Miro

Andy Warhol

Claes Oldenburg

Damien Hirst

Reading for 07/10 Henri Matisse, ‘Notes of a Painter’ in Art in Theory 1900 -2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Eds. Harrison & Wood, (Blackwell, 2003), pp 69 -75. p 73/l. 26 – p 74/l. 19. You can download the text from Moodle – in the section for today’s session