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Art In The Industrial Age. Photography: 1826-1910. Types of Photography Documentary Portrait Art Each type of photography developed separately and had a different effect on society. Developments in technology William Fox Talbot…calotypes or negatives Wet-Plate…reduced exposure
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Types of Photography • Documentary • Portrait • Art • Each type of photography developed separately and had a different effect on society.
Developments in technology • William Fox Talbot…calotypes • or negatives • Wet-Plate…reduced exposure • time to seconds • Tintype…thin metal plate • Dry plate…rapid speed exposure • Portable hand–held cameras and • roll film by 1880s
Nicephore Niepce, View from the Window at Gras, 1826
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, Paris Boulevard, 1839
Daguerre, Paris Boulevard, Detail
Jacob Riis (1849-1914) Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890.
Early Impressionism • Manet • Monet • Renoir • Degas • Impressionism was considered so outrageous that it is said pregnant women were barred from exhibitions lest the “filth” injure their unborn children. A newspaper claimed one gallery visitor was driven to madness and went around biting people.
Edward Manet, The Bar at Folies-Bergere, 1882
Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral (Day), 1894 Monet was obsessed with light and made a series of paintings depicting locations at different times of the day.
Claude Monet: Rouen Cathedral (Twilight), 1894 Monet was also obsessed with water and once said that he wanted to be buried in a buoy.
Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral (Evening), 1894 Monet was such a compulsive painter that when his wife died, he painted her as the color drained from her body.
Monet’s Dying Wife
Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1872 Monet was obsessed with water and once said that he wanted to be buried in a buoy.
Mrs. B and Rachael 2006 at Giverny
Mary Cassat, Young Mother Sewing, 1893 Though American by birth, Cassat lived in Paris. Her subjects were mostly women because the morals of the day would not permit her to be alone with men.
Post-Impressionism: 1880-1905
Toulouse-Lautrec, Moulin Rouge: La Goulue, 1891 Toulouse-Lautrec was a pioneer in lithography and poster-making.
Paul Cezanne, Turning Road at Montgeroult, 1899 Cezanne was the most criticized Impressionist painter. He became a virtual hermit.
Paul Gauguin, Yellow Christ, 1889 Gauguin was a lively fellow. He once said, “Eat well, kiss well, work ditto and you will die happy.”
Van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1888 Van Gogh made many sunflower paintings. He once proposed selling them for 40 cents to brighten the walls of poor workers’ homes.
Van Gogh, Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889 Van Gogh cut off his left ear lobe and gave it to a prostitute after having a fight with Gauguin.
Van Gogh Van Gogh made more portraits than any painter other than Rembrandt. He sold only one painting during his lifetime. He only won the affections of one woman, who poisoned herself after her parents rejected the match. He would paint at night by sticking candles in his hat. After his brother complained of financial troubles, Van Gogh wrote a letter declaring, “What’s the use?” Then he walked into a field and shot himself. Before he died, he said, “Who would believe that life could be so sad?”
Art Nouveau 1890-1914
Aubrey Beardsley Illustrator
Beardsley Illustration from Oscar Wilde’s Salome, 1892
Louis Comfort Tiffany Glasswork Dogwood circa 1900
Tiffany Water Lily Table Lamp 1904
Tiffany Peacock Feather Vases