19/04/2017. Impressionism. Wednesday, April 19, 2017 Course Outline. Impressionism. Monet. Or, Nothing but appearance St. Lawrence, 4/19/2017

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1 Impressionism Or, Nothing but appearance St. Lawrence, 4/19/2017 Wednesday, April 19, 2017 Course Outline Impressionism Monet 1

2 1840 Start of Photography 1863 Manet s The Luncheon 1863 Salon des Refusés 1870 Monet visits England 1872 Start of Impressionism 1872 Monet s Impression, Sunrise 1873 Foundation of the Anonymous Association of Painters, etc Eiffel Tower 1896 Rebirth of Olympic Games 1897 Bram Stoker s Dracula Key Notions -Broken color technique -Complementary color -Series Timeline Baroque ( ) Rococo ( ) Neoclassicism ( ) Romanticism (19th) Realism (Mid to end of 19th) Impressionism (End of 19th, start of 20th) Post-Impressionism (End of 19th, start of 20 th ) 2

Paris Impressionism Word appears in 1874 Urban and industrial themes Capturing the fleeting moment Use of

3 Word-stock Moment No narration Vivid colors Light experiments Outdoors Genre scene and landscape Claude Monet ( ) Or, a series of light experiments Self-portrait 1886, Oil on canvas, Private collection, Paris Impressionism Word appears in 1874 Urban and industrial themes Capturing the fleeting moment Use of new pigments How over what is seen Form is color Complementary colors Broken color technique Space acquires life 3

4 La Grenouillère 1869, Oil on canvas, 74,6 x 99,7 cm, Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York Impression, Sunrise 1872, Oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan, Paris Still-Life with Pears and Grapes 1880, Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm, Kunsthalle, Hamburg 4

Sunset on the Seine in Winter 1880, Oil on

Railway Bridge at Argenteuil 1874, Oil on

Lavacourt in Winter, 1879, Oil on canvas,

des Capucines, 1873, Oil on canvas, 80 x

5 Sunset on the Seine in Winter 1880, Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm, Private collection The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil 1874, Oil on canvas, 55 x 72 cm, Musée d'orsay, Paris Lavacourt in Winter, 1879, Oil on canvas, 51 x 66 cm, Private collection Boulevard des Capucines, 1873, Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City 5

l'orangerie, Paris Turkeys, 1876, Oil on canvas,

(Snow Effect, Overcast day), 1890-91, 66 x 93 cm,

Sunset), 1890-91, 66 x 93 cm, The Art Institute

the Saint-Romain at Brilliant Sun, Harmony in

Musée d Orsay, Paris Rouen Cathedral, The Façade

6 Red Boats at Argenteuil, c. 1875, Oil on canvas, 56 x 57 cm, Musée de l'orangerie, Paris Turkeys, 1876, Oil on canvas, 175 x 173 cm, Musée d'orsay, Paris Wheat Stack (Snow Effect, Overcast day), , 66 x 93 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago Wheat Stack (Thaw, Sunset), , 66 x 93 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago Source: 8 The Portal and the Tower of the Saint-Romain at Brilliant Sun, Harmony in Blue and Gold, 1893, Oil on canvas, cm, Musée d Orsay, Paris Rouen Cathedral, The Façade in Sunlight Location, 1894, Oil on canvas, cm, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown 6

Houses of Parliament, London, c. 1904, Oil on canvas, 81 x 92 cm (?), Palace of Fine-Arts, Lille, France Fog Effect, 1904, Oil on canvas, 82,6 x 92,7 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, St.

Medium Oil paint, thick and free Iconography None (except nature as an impression) Novelties The studio is moved outdoors Paint comes in tubes Painting the fleeting moment Suggested

7 Houses of Parliament, London, c. 1904, Oil on canvas, 81 x 92 cm (?), Palace of Fine-Arts, Lille, France Fog Effect, 1904, Oil on canvas, 82,6 x 92,7 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg Source: 8 What makes a Monet a Monet Theme Genre scene and landscape Composition Ephemeral Traditional Light Source of experimentation Color Vivid and complementary Texture & Medium Oil paint, thick and free Iconography None (except nature as an impression) Novelties The studio is moved outdoors Paint comes in tubes Painting the fleeting moment Suggested readings -Gombrich, The Story of Art, p Cleaver, Art, an Introduction, p Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, vol. 5, p Kleiner, Gardner s Art through the Ages, p

8 Bibliography and Sources 1. Adams, Exploring the Humanities 2. Cleaver, Art, an Introduction 3. Davies, Janson s Basic History of Western Art 4. Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, vol Gombrich, The Story of Art 6. Kleiner, Gardner s Art through the Ages

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