this ppt describes the art movement during the period of the Impressionism and the post-Impressionism. it specifically describe arts, music, literature and even the architecture during these periods. all of the artists are mentioned in this ppt with some details about them and with some of their notable work that they have done during these periods.

1. ART MOVEMENTS
• Impressionism
• Post-Impressionism

2. IMPRESSIONISM(1865-1885)

3. • INTRODUCTION
Impressionism movement was an important movement that
changed the concept of (Art & Music)
Since it turned away from the fine finish & taking care of
details, to the simplification of details.
(influences) It starts when several painters began using more
natural methods of lighting their works, as (Manet, Monet,
Pissarro)

4. MOVEMENT DEVELOPMENT
When and where the movement started?
• In France in the late 19th century.
• Also It is the 1st artistic revolution since the Renaissance movement.
What is the Influences that helps in the movement
appearing?
• when a group of artists created a new art style movement. They started
to share a set of their own resources and techniques to encourage
themselves in their own French exhibition that was in France.

5. MOVEMENT DEVELOPMENT
What did the artists call themselves?
• They called themselves the anonymous society of painters,
sculptures, engravers, etc.,
• But after that they were called “the Impressionists”

6. INTERESTS AND ART
STYLE
What is the characteristics, concepts and
style?
• The movement style characterized be
the simplification in details
• Using natural colors
• Landscapes & the effect of light on the
colors,
• EX: Rouen Cathedral, Façade, Sunset
(Monet)

7. INTERESTS AND ART
STYLE
 They loved describing:
• Vapor rising in the warm glow of the setting
of the sun
• The freezing of the water in winter
• Painting the mists, smoke from the trains
which made iron and building bricks seems
weightless
• Painting London fogs which roundabout
architecture
• EX: Lower Norwood under snow (Pissarro)

8. INTERESTS AND ART
STYLE
They Take care of the Impression
of the image.
EX: Impression, Sunrise (Monet)

9. ARTISTS OF THE
MOVEMENT
1-Edouard Manet
(1832-1883)
Loved describing street scenes
Simplification in details

10. NOTABLE WORK
• The bar at the Folies-Bergere
• The Café Concert

11. ARTISTS OF THE
MOVEMENT
2-Claude Monet
 (1840-1926)
• Leader of the Impressionism movement
• Loved work outdoors
• His style in art is using optical mixing
technique (mixing colors using broad
brushstrokes which give vibrant surface
texture)

12. NOTABLE WORK
Impression sunrise Garden at Sainte-Adresse

13. ARTISTS OF THE
MOVEMENT
3-Camille Pissarro
 (1830-1903)
 French artist
 Loved describing street scenes

14. NOTABLE WORKS
The Stagecoach at Louveciennes Garden at Pontoise

15. ARTISTS OF THE
MOVEMENT
4-Mary Cassatt
 (1855-1927)
 Came to Paris, France to study
Impressionism
 Loved to paint mothers & children

16. NOTABLE WORK
The boating
party

17. IMPRESSIONISM MUSIC

18. IMPRESSIONISM MUSIC
Notable composers
• Claude Debussy
• Ernest Fanelli

19. NOTABLE COMPOSERS
1.Claude Debussy
 (1862-1918)
 French composer
 One of the leading figures of the
impressionist music(The prominent French
literary style of his period was known as Symbolism,
and this movement directly inspired Debussy both as
a composer and as an active cultural participant.)

20. NOTABLE WORK
• Clair de Lune (1880)
• La mer (1903)

21. NOTABLE COMPOSERS
2.Ernest Fanelli
(1860-1917)
French composer
Said to be “the father of the
Impressionism music”

22. NOTABLE WORK
• Souvenirs de jeunesse (1872)
• Souvenirs poètiques (1878)
• A Night in Sophor (1891)

23. POST-IMPRESSIONISM(1885-1910)

24.  INTRODUCTION:
 Post impressionism was a movement in Art, Music, Architecture &
Literature.
 impressionism was changing, Artists as (Renoir, Degas & were exploring
new styles, they looked for something more substantial
 They wished to combine the color & light of the Impressionism
movement with the design & composition of the traditional paintings
 Those group of artists were (George Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Paul
Gaugain, Paul Cezanne)

25. MOVEMENT DEVELOPMENT
 When and where the movement started?
•In France in the beginning if the 20th century.
 What is the Influences that help in the movement
beginning?
• When Artists as (Renoir, Degas & were exploring new styles, they wished to
combine the color & light of the impressionism movement with the design &
composition of the traditional paintings.as(George Seurat, Vincent van Gogh,
Paul Gaugain, Paul Cezanne)

26. CONCEPTS AND STYLES
 During the impressionism movement, multiple art styles appeared:
I. Seurat pointillism
II. Van Gogh Japonism
III. Gaugin and Synthesim
IV. Cezanne and the Structure of Pictorial Form

27. SEURAT POINTILLISM
• Seurat is the earliest announcer of the new trend that
broke with Impressionism
• He developed the style of painting known as (pointillism)
which use points, dots as the basis for the construction of
the painting
• This was firstly known as (Neo-Impressionism). Were the
marks that made up the painting were each executed in a
singular color.
• Those colors of the tiny dots were to mimic vibrating
appearance of the natural color.
• EX: The Port of Saint Tropez (1906)

28. VAN GOGH JAPONISM
• Van Gogh relied in his style on the saturated colors and
broad brushstrokes to evoke the inner turmoil of the
artist .
• He loved to stylize the representations of Japanese
woodblock prints(ukiyo-e)
• (Japosim) it is a French term that was first used by Jules
Claretie
• And this style refers to both influence & style of
Japanese art on the western art
• EX: The Great Wave of The Coast Kanagawa (1906)

29. GAUGIN AND SYNTHESIM
• In the fall of 1888
• Van Gogh & Gaugin shared an symbolic content and images
that were abstracted from their natural appearances, Gauguin
developed these ideas further in his theory of "Syntheism”
• It is the synthesis between the outward appearance & the
subject of the matter.
• It uses pure color, shading, modeling & single point
perspective
• It produce a primitive emotional impression

30. GAUGIN SYNTHESIM
EX: Mountains in Tahiti(1897)
 express the vision with the
vibrant color

31. CEZANNE AND THE STRUCTURE OF PICTORIAL FORM
• Focused in his painting on an exploration of the
formal structure of portraits & landscapes rather
than describe the overall impression of the
• Suggested that the landscape was built up from
the simplest geometric components
 EX: Sainte Victory
 It Broke down the structure of the geometric
shape

32. ARTISTS OF THE
MOVEMENT
• Georges Seurat
• Vincent Van Gogh
• Paul Gauguin
• Paul Cezanne

33. ARTISTS OF THE
MOVEMENT
1.George Seurat
 (1859-1891)
 Loved painting sunny pictures
 Used pointillism (Neo-Impressionism) as his style

34. NOTABLE WORK
La Grande Jatte (1884) The Eiffel Tower (1889)

35. ARTISTS OF THE
MOVEMENT
2..Vincent Van Gogh
 (1853-1890)
 Worked as an art dealer & began painting in 27
 He produced over 800 paintings in 10 years
 committed suicide at 37

36. NOTABLE WORK
Starry, Starry, Night (1889)

37. ARTISTS OF THE
MOVEMENT
3. Paul Gauguin
 (1848-1903)
 He was known for painting & sculpture
 Use Synthesim as an art style

38. NOTABLE WORK
Mountains in Tahiti(1897)

39. ARCHITECTURE

40. ARCHITECTURE
• Became innovative as structural steel freed up the
limitations that allowed architects to go as high as
they pleased.
• 1st skyscraper in Chicago in 1880’s
• Lines were simple

41. FAMOUS CONSTRUCTIONS AT THIS PERIOD
The Brookline bridge (1883) Eiffel Tower (1887)

42. MUSIC

43. MUSIC STYLE
o Rise of national music
o Rise of folk songs
o Composers wrote music to amaze audience
o National history provided the inspiration for operas

44. NOTABLE MUSICIANS
• Franz Liszt: (1811-1886)
• Peter Tchaikovsky: (1840-1893)

45. NOTABLE MUSICIANS
1.Franz Liszt
 (1811-1886)
 Hungarian composer
 Over than 1200 compositions
 1st composer to perform solo piano concerts
Notable compositions
o Faust Symphony (1854)
o Hungarian Rhapsody

46. NOTABLE MUSICIANS
2. Peter Tchaikovsky
 (1840-1893)
 Russian composer who was educated in law school, but left
to study music
 Wrote symphonies, operas, ballets & popular concert music
NOTABLE COMPOSITIONS
o Swan Lake
o Sleeping beauty

47. LITERATURE

48. LITERATURE CONCEPTS
• A great period for fiction
• Deal with human development & their problems.
• Exposed people as (greedy, selfish, aggressive, etc.)

49. NOTABLE WRITERS
o George Bernard Shaw
o H.G Wells

50. NOTABLE WRITERS
1.George Bernard Shaw:
 (1856-1950)
 Self-educated in economics & politics
 Considered the greatest dramatist in the English
language since Shakespeare
 Won Nobel prize for literature in 1925
NOTABLE WORK (Plays included)
o Man & superman
o Arms and the Man
o Caesar & Cleopatra

51. NOTABLE WRITERS
2.H.G Wells
 (1866-1946)
• Herbert studied Zoology
• Pioneered modern science fiction
• Believed in the perfectibility of mankind
NOTABLE WORK
o The Time Machine
o The Visible Man
o The War of the World

52. ANY QUESTIONS?