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Chapter Thirteen
Gardner's Art through the Ages, Concise Edition
by Fred Kleiner
  • Europe and America, 1870-1900

Prepared by Kelly Donahue-Wallace Randal
Wallace University of North Texas
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Impressionism
  • Dates and Places
  • 1870 to 1890
  • France, England, US
  • People
  • Industrialization, urbanization
  • Leisure
  • Self-conscious modernity and modernism

JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER, Nocturne in Black
and Gold (The Falling Rocket), ca. 1875. Fig.
13-1.
3
Impressionism
  • Themes
  • Landscape, cityscape
  • Urban life
  • Leisure activities
  • Forms
  • Fleeting effects of light
  • Unblended brushstrokes
  • Plein air (outdoor) painting
  • Influence of Japanese prints

MARY CASSATT, The Bath, ca. 1892. Fig. 13-6.
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Impressionism
  • Example
  • Impressionist Movements name derived from
    painting title
  • First Impressionist show
  • Honesty of materials
  • Capture sensations of moment
  • Painted outdoors

CLAUDE MONET, Impression Sunrise, 1872. Fig.
13-2.
5
Impressionism
  • Example
  • Urban life
  • Technology, travel, speed
  • Fleeting effects of smoke
  • Agitated brushwork

CLAUDE MONET, Saint-Lazare Train Station, 1877.
Fig. 13-3.
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Impressionism
  • Example
  • Leisure activities of city dwellers
  • Dappled light through leaves
  • Casual composition, forms cut off continuity of
    space
  • Incidental, momentary

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR, Le Moulin de la Galette,
1876. Fig. 13-4.
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Impressionism
  • Example
  • Leisure activities of city dwellers
  • Influence of imported Japanese prints
  • Japanese composition, viewpoint
  • Photography for preliminary studies

EDGAR DEGAS, Ballet Rehearsal, 1874. Fig. 13-5.
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Post-Impressionism
  • Dates and Places
  • 1890 to 1905
  • France
  • People
  • Urbanization
  • Café society
  • Colonization
  • Individual exploration of feeling, mental state

PAUL GAUGUIN, Vision after the Sermon, or Jacob
Wrestling with the Angel, 1888. Fig. 13-11.
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Post-Impressionism
  • Themes
  • Urban life
  • Landscape
  • Exotic themes
  • Forms
  • No single approach
  • Rejection of illusionism, window onto the world
  • Expressive use of color, line, brush stroke

PAUL CÉZANNE, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 19021904.
Fig. 13-13.
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Post-Impressionism
  • Example
  • Café society
  • Influence of Japanese prints
  • Expressive exaggeration of forms, lines
  • Expressive use of non-local color

HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, At the Moulin Rouge,
18921895. Fig. 13-7.
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Post-Impressionism
  • Example
  • Color theory
  • Pointillism, divisionism
  • Leisure activity of urban working class

GEORGES SEURAT, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte,
18841886. Fig. 13-8.
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Post-Impressionism
VINCENT VAN GOGH, Starry Night, 1889. Fig. 13-10.
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Post-Impressionism
  • Example
  • Formal properties to communicate his state of
    mind
  • Feeling about landscape, not objective record
  • Expressive distortion
  • Expressive brush strokes

VINCENT VAN GOGH, Starry Night, 1889. Fig. 13-10.
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Post-Impressionism
  • Example
  • Expressive power of color
  • Flat color, outlines
  • Sought natural people
  • French colonialism in Tahiti
  • Paints as exotic, primitive people

PAUL GAUGUIN, Where Do We Come From? What Are We?
Where Are We Going? 1897. Fig. 13-12.
15
Post-Impressionism
  • Example
  • Systematic representation of shapes and colors
  • Properties of lines, planes, colors
  • Solidity of forms
  • Seen from different viewpoints

PAUL CÉZANNE, Basket of Apples, ca. 1895. Fig.
13-14.
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Post-Impressionism
  • Example
  • Expressive use of light and shadow
  • Emphasis on human emotion to tragic event
  • Treatment of surface emphasizes reality, not
    smoothness

AUGUSTE RODIN, Burghers of Calais, 18841889.
Fig. 13-18.
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Symbolist Painting
  • Dates and Places
  • End of 19th century
  • Western Europe
  • People
  • Hedonism, pessimism, escapism at the end of
    century
  • Influence of psychiatry and study of mind

HENRI ROUSSEAU, Sleeping Gypsy, 1897. Fig. 13-15.
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Symbolist Painting
  • Themes
  • Fantasy, dreamlike images
  • Mysterious, exotic
  • Nightmarish
  • Forms
  • Not a unified style
  • Expressive use of form and color
  • Rejected illusionism

EDVARD MUNCH, The Scream, 1893. Fig. 13-16.
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Symbolist Painting
  • Example
  • Untrained artist
  • Dreamlike theme
  • Threatening lion
  • Uneasy reminder of vulnerability
  • Unconscious mind

HENRI ROUSSEAU, Sleeping Gypsy, 1897. Fig. 13-15.
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Symbolist Painting
  • Example
  • Angst of modern, urban life
  • State of mind, madness
  • Expressive distortion of form
  • Expressive non-local color

EDVARD MUNCH, The Scream, 1893. Fig. 13-16.
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Architecture 1870-1900
  • Example
  • Created for exhibition
  • Honesty of structure and purpose
  • Skeleton exposed
  • Transparent

ALEXANDRE-GUSTAVE EIFFEL, Eiffel Tower, 1889.
Fig. 13-19.
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Architecture 1870-1900
  • Example
  • New material steel
  • Skyscraper, open work spaces
  • Rejects traditions
  • Form follows function
  • Limited ornament
  • Honesty to interior organization

LOUIS HENRY SULLIVAN, Guaranty (Prudential)
Building, 18941896. Fig. 13-20.
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