Impressionism

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Impressionism

• Commitment to represent modern life
• Make a break from traditional art, avant garde
• Make it expressive, markings of how it was made
• Painted from nature (en plein air)
• Artists did not have
• the same style
• Scenes of leisure
• Dance halls
• Cafés
• Concerts
• Theatres

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Monet, Impression Sunrise, 1872
Clear brushstrokes
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Compare
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Monet, On the Bank of the Seine, 1868
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Monet, Boulevard des Capucines, 1873

• Thick solid bodies
• Transparent legs

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Monet, Red Boats, Argenteuil, 1875
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Monet, Boulevard Seen From Above, 1880
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Monet, Water Lilies, 1907
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Renoir, Moulin de la Galette, 1876
Blurred Boundaries
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Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881
Renoirs Wife
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Degas, The Glass of Absinthe, 1876
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Degas, The Tub, 1886
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Morisot, On the Balcony, 1871-1872
Edma
The Cradle
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Morisot, Butterfly Chase, 1873
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Cassatt, The Letter, 1891
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What similarities do you notice?
Japanese Prints
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Cassatt, The Bath, 1891-1892

• Simplified colour forms
• Flat composition

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Sculpture

• Traditionally, sculpture
• was smooth and
• emphasized musculature
• 19th century sculpture
• Concern with human
• psychology
• Evidence of the process
• of making
• In the round (have to walk
• around it to see all of it)

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Rodin, The Age of Bronze, 1877
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Rodin, Torso, 1877
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Rodin, The Gates of Hell, 1880-1917
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Rodin, The Kiss
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Rodin, A Danaid, 1885
What do the different representations of these
sculptures suggest about gender?
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Degas, Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen, 1880-1881