Chapter 27-3 19 th Century Art in Europe and USA!
Britain Late 19 th Century
Artist: William Holman Hunt Title: The Hireling Shepherd Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 30 ⅛ X 43 ⅛" (76.4 X 109.5 cm) Date: 1851 Source/ Museum: Manchester City Art Gallery, England Painted landscapes that he would add figures to Man flirts with women Political statement lamb in lap is cute
Artist: BACKGROUND: William Morris Title: Peacock and Dragon Curtain Medium: Handloomed jacquardwoven woolen twill Size: 12' 10 ½" X 11' 5 ⅝" (3.96 X 3.53 m) Date: 1878 Source/ Museum: Manufactured at Queen Square and later at Merton Abbey / Victoria & Albert Museum, London Alternative to industrial furniture Hand woven seat and simple lines
Impressionism Boycotted the Salon and were called impressionist, not realist, impressionism gives you a taste or an impression of the subject
Artist: Édouard Manet Title: Le Déjeuner sur l herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass) Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 7' X 8'8" (2.13 X 2.64 m) Date: 1863 Source/ Museum: Musée d Orsay, Paris A radical artist Lead the rejected salon exhibit Not very appropriate art subject matter
Artist: Édouard Manet Title: Olympia Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 4'3" X 6'2 ¼" (1.31 X1.91 m) Date: 1863 Source/ Museum: Musée du Louvre, Paris Olympia was a prostitute in a novel by Aleixandre Dumas, passed on a Titian painting. She is angular and flat, cold and indifferent cat doesn t like you she glares down at the view as if saying you are subordinate
Artist: Claude Monet Title: On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 32 X 39 ⅔" (81.5 X 100.7 cm) Date: 1868 Source/ Museum: Art Institute of Chicago. Potter Palmer Collection, 1922.427 Strong light, rich shadows, bold colors, paint conveys freshness of the day Paint is loosely placed around the canvas to create the allusion of the objects
Artist: Claude Monet Title: Gare St- Lazare Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 29¾ X 50" (75.5 X 104 cm) Date: 1877 Source/ Museum: Musée d Orsay, Paris. Photo: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY When you painted don t think of the objects but think of the colors
Artist: Camille Pissarro Title: Wooded Landscape at L hermitage, Pontoise Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 18 5 16 X 22 1 16" (46.5 X 56 cm) Date: 1878 Source/ Museum: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas S. Pickard Later painter but reflects monet style A lightening of colors and a loose way in which they handled the brush Enjoyed painting for the sake of painting
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir Title: Moulin de la Galette Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 4'3½" X 5'9" (1.31 X 1.75 m) Date: 1876 Source/ Museum: Musée d Orsay, Paris Combined the light and air monet painting with a impressionist figure painting of his own Attractive middle class and innocent flirtation, underscored by children, painting is knit together by the overall mood
Artist: Edgar Degas Title: The Rehearsal on Stage Medium: Pastel over brush-and-ink drawing on thin, cream-colored wove paper, laid on bristol board, mounted on canvas Size: 21⅜ X 28¾" (54.3 X 73 cm) Date: c. 1874 Source/ Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929 (29.160.26) Arranged his own visual choreography More academic than the other impressionists Inspired by Japanese prints, intended to delight the eye Viewed from opera box, the men. KNOWN FOR HIS RED HAEDED MODELS AND BALLERINA PRINTS
Artist: Mary Cassatt Title: Woman in a Loge Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 31 ⅝ X 23" (80.3 X 58.4 cm) Date: 1879 Source/ Museum: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Bequest of Charlotte Dorrance Wright American women painter Degas invited her to exhibit with the impressionist Studio painter, known for her brilliant color, fluent brushstrokes, and urban subject matter
Artist: Berthe Morisot Title: Summer s Day Married to Manet s brother, very Medium: Oil on canvas loose painterly style, she like Size: 17 13 16 X 29 5 16" (45.7 X 75.2 cm) Date: 1879 Cassatt devoted herself to painting the women at the time Source/ Museum: The National Gallery, London. Lane Bequest, 1917
Artist: Édouard Manet Title: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 37 ¾ X 51 ¼" (95.9 X 130 cm) Date: 1881 82 Source/ Museum: Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London. (P.1934.SC.234) Manet followed the lead of the painters around him and loosened his brush stokes Last major painting, contrast the other happy lady paintings You are the customer, she is a barmaid, who looks strong and lively but her dreamer reflects not,
Late Impressionism
Artist: Mary Cassatt Title: Maternal Caress Medium: Drypoint, soft-ground etching, and aquatint on paper Size: 14 ¾ X 10¾" (37.5 X 27.3 cm) Date: 1891 Source/ Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Chester Dale Collection (1963.10.255) Japanese influence with her introduction to print making Madonna and child reference Simplified and clean Harmony of apricots and browns
Artist: Claude Monet Title: Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in Sun) Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 39 ¼ X 26" (99.7 X 66 cm) Date: 1894 Source/ Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915 (30.95.250) Painted more than 30 views of the cathedral Tried to capture the fleeting affects of light To put impressionist on the art historical maps Monet began painting French historical things
Post- Impressionist Art after the impressionists
Artist: Paul Cézanne Title: Mont Sainte-Victoire Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 25 ½ X 32" (64.8 X 92.3 cm) Date: c. 1885 87 Source/ Museum: Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London. (P.1934.SC.55) Wanted to develop more abstract styles In Manet s circle, early work rejected by salon sensations of nature brush strokes Painted this mountain more than 30 times before it died
Artist: Paul Cézanne Title: Still Life with Basket of Apples Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 24 ⅜ X 31" (62.5 X 79.5 cm) Date: 1890 94 Source/ Museum: The Art Institute of Chicago. Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection Right side of table is higher than the left Wine bottle has 2 different silhouette Tumbling effect More about the colors than the perspective
Artist: Paul Cézanne Title: The Large Bathers Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 6'10" X 8"2" (2.08 X 2.49 m) Date: 1906 Source/ Museum: Philadelphia Museum of Art. The W. P. Wilstach Collection Later work, Left unfinished, died Did not work with models 2 pyramidal groups Colors layed over white in patches
Artist: Georges Seurat Title: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 6'9 ½" X 10'1 ¼" (2.07 X 3.08 m) Date: 1884 86 Source/ Museum: The Art Institute of Chicago. Divisionism/ pointillism Dot painting using Chevreul s law- blue next to yellow, you can detect the complement Optical mixing. Grainy appearance, Different interpretations