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Post- Impressionism

Post- Impressionism. Some review: Impressionism was influenced by Realism: scenes of contemporary life personal views and subjects ; art for art’s sake avant garde attitude ; the artist is separate from the mainstream. Some review: Impressionism was influenced by Realism:

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Post- Impressionism

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  1. Post- Impressionism

  2. Some review: • Impressionism was influenced by Realism: • scenes of contemporary life • personal views and subjects; art for art’s sake • avant garde attitude; the artist is separate from the mainstream

  3. Some review: • Impressionism was influenced by Realism: • scenes of contemporary life • personal views and subjects; art for art’s sake • avant garde attitude; the artist is separate from the mainstream • Impressionism was mainly concerned with: • the play of light on surfaces • intensity of colour (canvases primed white; no black used) • informal compositions

  4. The play of light on surfaces: Renoir, Dance at the Moulin de la Galette, 1876

  5. The play of light on surfaces: Degas, L’etoile, 1878

  6. Intensity of colour: Monet, Field of Poppies, 1873

  7. Intensity of colour: Monet, Water Lilies, 1916

  8. Informal compositions were inspired by the wide-spread use of photography (thanks to the invention of roll film) and the resulting candid photos.

  9. Informal compositions: Degas, The Absinthe Drinker, 1876

  10. We call the next generation Post-Impressionists

  11. We call the next generationPost-Impressionists “Post” signifies after. The only thing this group of artists has in common is that they ere influenced by the Impressionists’ use of intense colour. Their importance lies in their huge influence on the artwork of the 20th century: Modernism.

  12. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec At the Moulin Rouge, 1892 / 95

  13. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec La Goulue arrivant au Moulin Rouge, 1895

  14. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec Jane Avril, lithograph, 1893

  15. Georges Seurat No more informal compositions; everything is carefully planned. Tiny dots of pure colour placed next to each other; your retina does the mixing! La Parade,1889

  16. Georges Seurat … this technique is called pointillism. Detail from La Parade

  17. Georges Seurat Sunday afternoon on the Island of Grand Jatte, 1884-86

  18. Paul Cezanne Collapse of space!! Still Life with Plaster Cupid, 1895

  19. Paul Cezanne Simplification of form!! The Card Players, 1890-92

  20. Paul Cezanne Mount St. Victoire, 1897 Surfaces broken up into flat facets, like the shimmering surface of a diamond!!

  21. Paul Gauguin Distortion of space!! Distortion of colour!! The Vision after the Sermon, 1888

  22. Paul Gauguin The beginnings of abstraction!! 500 years of tradition was thrown out the window!! The Yellow Christ, 1889

  23. Paul Gauguin Abstract forms, colours and symbolism!! Self Portrait with Halo, 1889

  24. Paul Gauguin Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, 1897

  25. Vincent Van Gogh Self Portrait, 1889

  26. Vincent Van Gogh Self Portraits

  27. Vincent Van Gogh Distortion of colour, depth and form to convey emotional or psychological states!! Van Gogh’s Room at Arles, 1889

  28. These swirls weren’t in the sky; they were in his mind. Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night, 1889

  29. 20th Century Western Art has its roots in the Post Impressionists influenced “Cubism” Cezanne…

  30. 20th Century Western Art has its roots in the Post Impressionists Van Gogh and Gauguin… influenced “Expressionism”

  31. 20th Century Western Art has its roots in the Post Impressionists Van Gogh and Gauguin… influenced “Expressionism”

  32. 20th Century Western Art has its roots in the Post Impressionists Van Gogh and Gauguin… influenced “Expressionism”

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