Impressionism no response to political or military happenings

Impressionism • no response to political or military happenings • Prefer genres scenes, leisure activities, entertainment and landscapes • Influenced by Japanese prints • Concerned with the natural properties of light, natural and artificial • Rejected by the French Academy • E Everyday life • L Light • B Brushstrokes • O Outdoor settings • W Weather and atmosphere

Interest in widening streets from medieval narrows to wide avenues, good for traffic flow and transporting manufactured goods. Redesign by Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann

Aerial of Paris Opera House; renovated by Jean-Louis-Charles Garnier in Baroque opulence

Entrance for carriages stage Emperor’s entrance Pedestrian entrance

Edouard Manet, Zola, exhibited 1868, oil on canvas video

Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, 1881 -1882, oil on canvas video

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Moulin de la Galette, 1876, oil on canvas

Edgar Degas, Absinthe, 1876, oil on canvas

Edgar Degas, Visit to a Museum, 1885, oil on canvas Mary Cassatt and her sister

Edgar Degas, Dancing Lesson, 1883 -1885 oil on canvas

Degas, The Dance Class, 1874, video

Degas, At the Races, 1886 -1887 oil on canvas

Eadweard Muybridge, Galloping Horse, 1878, Albumen Print

Mary Cassatt, Boating Party, 1893 -1894, oil on canvas

Mart Cassatt, The Letter, 1891, etching and aquatint Utamaro’s Young Woman with Blackened Teeth

Mary Cassatt, The Coiffure, 1890 -1891, drypoint and aquatint on laid paper Kitagawa Utamaro, Takashima Ohisa Using Two Mirrors to Observe Her Coiffure, c. 1795, woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Berthe Morisot, Cradle, 1873, oil on canvas

Claude Monet, Terrace at Sainte-Adresse, 1866 -1867, oil on canvas

Monet, Waterlily Pond, 1904, oil on canvas

Variations of Monet’s Japanese Bridge Monet suffered from Macular Degeneration which is evident in his use of color. His earlier works made when his sight was healthy are pastel and soft. As his sight waned, his work because darker and bolder because that is what he could see.

Monet, Rouen Cathedral; Sunlight, Fog and Early Morning, 1894, oil on canvas

Claude Monet, The Saint-Lazare Station, 1877, oil on canvas video

Renoir, Pont-Neuf, 1872, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro, Place du Theatre Francais, 1898, oil on canvas

Degas, Fourth Position Front, on the Left Leg, 1880’s, bronze

Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, 1879 -1889, bronze, video

Rodin, Balzac, 1892 -1897, plaster Rodin, Balzac, after 1917, bronze

Winslow Homer, Breezing Up, 1873 -1876, oil on canvas

Homer, Life Line, oil on canvas, 1884, video

James Abbott Mc. Neill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold (Falling Rocket), 1875, oil on oak panel