Impressionism the New Painting Art History September 13

Impressionism: the New Painting Art History September 13, 2007 Grade 12 Visual Arts Ms Le. Roy

Neo Classicism: the old painting. David, The Oath of Horatii

French Realism Gustave Courbet, Burial at Ornans

Édouard Manet Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863

Manet’s Olympia

Titian’s Venus of Urbino

Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus

James M Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, 1875

James Abbott Mc. Neil Whistler, Arrangement in Black and Gray (Portrait of the Artist’s Mother), 1871

Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1872

Monet’s Rouen Cathedral

Edgar Degas, Absinthe, 1876

Pierre-August Renoir, 
 Le Moulin De La Galette, 1876

Mary Cassatt, Girl Arranging her Hair, 1886

Monet

• IMPRESSIONISM Notes • Early 1860 s, France. Paris was still a medieval city up until the time when Napolean III (Boneparte’s nephew) proclaims himself ruler and appoints Baron Haussmann to modernize Paris for political and aesthetic reasons. Haussmann supervises urban design of drainage, sewers, clean water, bridges, fountains, public parks to discourage revolutionary activities and uprisings. • Impressionism rejects Renaissance perspective, balanced composition, idealized figures and chiaroscuro Represented immediate visual sensations through colour and light Influenced by Japanese woodblock prints that were appearing on the market was interested in the effects of light and color 
 based on observation, not interested in politics or religion 
 "art for art's sake" 
(Whistler) used broken color, rather than flat Impressionism began in France with a group of artists interested in color Claude Monet was the leader of the Impressionist movement. He used diffused light and color to create composition Impression: Sunrise, 1872, oil on canvas. one critic advised that small children or pregnant women should not see this work Period that lasted only 15 years • • •