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Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism. Cezanne and Van Gogh. Started with Impressionism but went further towards abstraction . “Avant Garde”. The painting as an object, not just an image Emphasis on personal expression. Post-Impressionism. The Two Biggies.

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Post-Impressionism

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  1. Post-Impressionism Cezanne and Van Gogh

  2. Started with Impressionism but went further towards abstraction. “Avant Garde” The painting as an object, not just an image Emphasis on personal expression Post-Impressionism

  3. The Two Biggies • Each has been called “The Father of Modern Painting” • Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) • Famous during his last ten years • Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) • Famous only after death • Others include Seurat, Gauguin, and Lautrec

  4. Paul Cezanne • The artist’s favorite / an isolated character • Quit law school to become a recluse painter • Exhibited with the Impressionists at first • Consistently rejected by the Salon • Subject matter never as important as the act of painting • Rarely signed his work - never good enough • Intensity scared his models for portraiture - (he was a butt head) Self-portrait - 1882

  5. House of the Hanged Man - 1873

  6. Wanted to take Impressionism and make it more solid. The Card Players - 1890-92 (“kidnapped” in 1961)

  7. Over 40 portraits of his wife, but none show an exact likeness - or any feeling whatsoever. Portrait of Mme. Cezanne in Yellow Chair - 1888-90

  8. Still Life - 1892

  9. Tension between flatness and 3-d illusionistic space 1890-94

  10. Tension between flatness and 3-d illusionistic space

  11. Mont. Sainte-Victoire, 1898-1902 Landscapes painted indoors from sketches

  12. “In art, everything is theory, developed and applied in contact with nature.” Adjusted the subject matter for pictorial harmony 1904-06

  13. Dead at age 67 • “There is only one painter in the world - ME.” • Fame came during the last ten years of his life and really exploded after his death. • Tension between • Flat and three-dimensional • “Real” and Illusion

  14. Vincent Van Gogh Cezanne to Van Gogh: “Sir, you paint like a madman!” Self-portrait 1888

  15. Vincent Willem Van Gogh • Used color for emotionalexpression • The “heroic” originator of the stereotype of the “avant garde” artists ever since • 10-year career - started painting at age 27 (1700 works!) • Basically self-taught • Each painting a personal message • “...not to please certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.” • Naive, vulnerable, and even mentally ill, but never an idiot Sunflowers - 1888

  16. Pre-art life and early work Self-portrait 1886 Loved humanity but couldn’t get along with people

  17. The Potato Eaters - 1885

  18. Letters to Theo661 in all! “One must undertake [work] with confidence, with a certain assurance that one is doing a reasonable thing...”

  19. 1886 - Moved to Paris at age 32Perpetually malnourished

  20. Self-portrait as Buddhist monk 1888

  21. Moved to “Japan” (Arles) in 1888 – produced 200 paintings in 15 months The Sower - 1888

  22. Detail - the Sower He used strong color to “give hope to poor creatures.”

  23. “Starry Night” - 1888

  24. Olive Grove Olive Trees - 1888

  25. Portraits in Arles (1889) Joseph Roulin Madame Ginoux

  26. Self-portrait - 1887

  27. Bedroom in Arles - 1888

  28. Sunflowers - 1888

  29. Paul Gauguin The Vision After the Sermon (Jacob wrestling with the Angel), 1899

  30. Committed himself to the sanitarium at Saint-Remy in 1889(think of Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind) Experiments with color Self-portrait - 1889 (note ear)

  31. Portrait of Dr. GachetAuvers, 189070 canvasses in 65 days! On his one and only sale and article (1890): “...in a painter’s life, success is about the worst thing that can happen.”

  32. Crows and Wheat Field - 1890

  33. Final Self Portrait - dead at 37 “...what’s the use?”

  34. Within 25 years,he was being universally hailed as the father of modern art

  35. Where did these guys lead us? • Fauvism • Cubism • Expressionism • Abstract Expressionism • Etc. etc. etc.

  36. Fauvism Mme. Matisse - 1907 Henri Matisse Seated Riffian - 1913

  37. Cubism Pablo Picasso - Les Demoiselles d’Avignon - 1907

  38. Cubism Pablo Picasso - Les Demoiselles d’Avignon - 1907

  39. Expressionism Max Beckmann - Carnival - 1942-3 Edward Munch - The Scream 1893

  40. Abstract Expressionism Jackson Pollack - Lavender Misk One - 1950

  41. Josef Albers - Homage to Square - 1965 Josef Albers - Homage to Square - 1968

  42. Barnett Newman - The Third 1965

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