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LECTURE 2 : Part 3 French Impressionism art movement : Impressionism Neo-Impressionism Post-Impressionism  LECTURE 2 : Part 3 IMPRESSIONISM  IMPRESSIONISM ARTIST Claude Monet Auguste Renoir Edgar Degas Claude Monet (1840-1926) Refused to tak...

LECTURE 2 : Part 3 French Impressionism art movement : Impressionism Neo-Impressionism Post-Impressionism  LECTURE 2 : Part 3 IMPRESSIONISM  IMPRESSIONISM ARTIST Claude Monet Auguste Renoir Edgar Degas Claude Monet (1840-1926) Refused to take up Family’s grocery business to become an artists. Visited The Louvre & was not impress with the traditional methods of painting. The Founder of Impressionism. Influenced by Realism artists like Courbet / Millet. ‘To paint what you feel, not what you see.’ ‘En Plein Air’ – Open Air Painting No longer confined to studio painting. Work on a few paintings at the same time & also different times with the same spot. Broken Brushstrokes – unlike Classical Painting which emphasis on multiple detail glazes. Rejection by the French Art Salon thus only exhibit works at the Salon De Refuses. Cliffs at Etretat, 1883 Cliffs at Etretat, 1883 Cliffs at Etretat, 1883  IMPRESSIONISM (Around 1870-1880s) Depicts the port of Le Havre which was Monet's hometown. Criticized by art critics as a piece of unfinished work. Impression, Sunrise 1872 by Claude Monet HAYSTACKS 1890-1891 (Dried grass stored up as animal food) Waterloo Bridge, London (1899 and 1901) Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Started off as a portrait artists. Depicts the modern Parisian life. Depiction of social gatherings & parties. Penetration of sunlight through leaves which create effects of dancing shadows. Likes to captures the reflection of lights on the harbour / river banks’ water surface. Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (1876) French working class dressed up, dancing & eating galette in the evening. Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880 Friends gather at a restaurant along River Seine. La Grenouillère (1868) BoatingLaonGrenouillere (1869) The Seine (1879) La Grenouillère (1868) Boating on The Seine (1879) Edgar Degas (1834 -1917) Favourite subject matter are the Ballet dancers & Female bathers Medium of favourite is Pastel / Chalk Odd Composition with Spontaneous Snapshots & Non-linear Perspective. The Dance Class (1873) Dancers (1874) The Bathers (1885-1890) Odd composition (Photography) – unexpected viewpoint  LECTURE 2 : Part 3 NEO - IMPRESSIONISM Georges Seurat (1886-1891) Best known for his ‘Pointillism’ Technique Only 7 major Pointillism artworks painted. Only lasted in a short time. The technique is meticulous & time consuming. Other Neo-Impressionist Artists continued his artistic legacy & style after his death in 1891. (Paul Signac & Georges Lemmen) A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884) Pointillism (Details) Painting by Georges Lemmen, Beach at Heist, 1891 Painting by Paul Signac,The Papal Palace, 1900  LECTURE 2 : Part 3 POST - IMPRESSIONISM  POST – IMPRESSIONISM ARTIST (1886-1905) Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Paul Gaugain (1848-1930) Paul Gaugain - The Primitive life of Tahiti Island Paul Gauguin's Works – The Primitive life of Tahiti Island  Vincent Van Gogh – Self Portrait Born in Netherlands The Madman (Slicing off 1 side of his earlobe & stabbing his friend Paul Gaugain with a razor.) Sent to Asylum after encountering a mental disability. Vibrant & illuminating colors.(Complementary – which creates a visual sensation) Famous with his swirling & broken/ bold brushstrokes (expressive / to show emotion). Night scenes / Nature / Flowers/ Still Life/ Open fields / Rural peasant / Portraits Some of his artworks are influenced by Japanese Ukiyo-E Woodblock print. The Potato Eaters (1889)  Starry – starry Night, 1889 “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”  Starry Night over the Rhone, 1888 ‘For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.’  The Sunflower Most of his works are painted with blue & yellow. Quote by Van Gogh – ‘There is no blue without yellow and without orange.’ The Night Cafe, 1888 Café Terrace at Night  Wheatfield with Crows, 1889 1 of the last few paintings Van Gogh had produced A suicidal note for the artist Japanese Influence on Impressionism “Everyday Subject Matter”  Did You Know Impressionist Loved Japanese Art? Claude Monet Edgar Degas Vincent Van Gogh Influenced by the Japanese Ukiyo-E Woodblock print Influenced by the Japanese Ukiyo-E Woodblock print Influenced by the Japanese Ukiyo-E Woodblock print The Great Wave Of Hokusai Influenced by the Japanese Ukiyo-E Woodblock print Japanese Influence on Impressionist Claude Monet  The influence of Japanese Culture (Geisha) “Camille Monet in Japanese Costume,” Camille Doncieux, 1871 (Monet’s wife) La Japonaise, 1876. Oil on Canvas by Claude Monet.  Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge, 1899 by Claude Monet Under Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa, 1823 by Hokusai Japanese Influence on Impressionist Edgar Degas  While Edgar Degas’ signature series of women at la toilette is undoubtedly inspired by the voyeuristic depictions o bathing women frequently found in Japanese prints. Edgar Degas, “Woman Combing her Hair,” 1885 Hashiguchi Goyo, “Combing Hair,” 1920 Japanese Influence on Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh Almond Blossom, Vincent van Gogh (1890) Bridge in the Rain, Vincent van Gogh (1887) Ōhashi Atake no yūdachi, Hiroshige(1857) Thank You