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Traditional landscape painting mid-1800s Europe
Gustave Courbet (French, 18191877)The Valley of
the Loue in Stormy Weather, 1849Oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 25 5/8 in. (54 x 65 cm)
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How did we go from that to this?
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Impressionism 1870s-1880s (ImpressionistsArti
sts using the style) The first really radical
artists!
Claude Monet, The Haystacks or The End of Summer,
1891,, Musee dOrsey, Paris

• Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, the West Portal
  and Saint-Romain Tower, Full Sunlight, Harmony in
  Blue and Gold), 1893, Oil on canvas, 107 x 73 cm
  (42 1/8 x 28 3/4 in) Musee d'Orsay, Paris

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Impressionist goals/ techniques

• Want to capture affects of light on subjects
• Mostly landscape subjects
• Used dabs of pure color next to each other to
  create optical mixes
• Painted while looking AT the subjects
• Style was revolutionary not accepted by critics
  or public
• 1870s-1880s French

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Post-Impressionism

• French painting style of the late nineteenth
  century. Follows Impressionism.
• Wanted to express feelings and ideas-often
  through the use of symbolic color. (very
  different from Impressionists)
• Two leaders were Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van
  Gogh
• Late 1880s-1890s

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Paul Gauguin

• French
• Banker turned artist
• Paints France and Tahiti
• Emotional and symbolic use of color
• Friends with Vincent Van Gogh
• Share interests in painting

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The Yellow Christ, 1889Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x
28 7/8" (92.1 x 73.4 cm.)Collection
Albright-Knox Art GalleryGeneral Purchase Funds,
1946
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Your Turn Will Come, My Beauty. The Blue Tree
Trunks, Arles," by Paul Gauguin, 92 by 73
centimeters, 1888
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Vincent Van Gogh

• Dutch, but lives in Paris and Southern France
• Working artist for only 10 years
• Sells only one painting in lifetime
• Subjects are everyday things but highly enhanced
  color and forms
• Exaggerates shape, line, emotion evident
• Many subjects, but we will look at images with
  trees
• Analyze his style-What makes a Van Gogh a Van
  Gogh?

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Vincent Van Gogh, Mulberry Tree
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Van Gogh, Tree Trunks in the Grass, 1890, oil on
canvas
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Vincent Van Gogh Cornfield and Cypress Tree
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Vincent van Gogh Road with Cypress and Star (oil
on canvas, 36-1/4x28-3/4 inches),
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Vincent van Gogh. (Dutch, 1853-1890). The Starry
Night. Saint Rémy, June 1889. Oil on canvas, 29 x
36 1/4" (73.7 x 92.1 cm).
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Assignment Paint Like Van Gogh Trees

• We will
• ?Draw trees from life in your sketchbook
• ?Paint a basic background onto a board using
  intense colors
• ?Paint tree(s) based on your drawings in the
  foreground using intense exaggerated color and
  brushwork
• ?Use line to create interest and movement
  throughout the painting