This presentation covers artwork from the Realist, Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist periods. Artists moved away from simply "re-"presenting the world, and started creating "art for art's sake." Works by Manet, Whistler, Monet, Renoir, Caillebotte, van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat and others are featured. Class notes and audio are available at http://dicknelsoncolor.com/2015/art-is-us-2015-week-7/

1. Match the image with text.
1. Greek Classic origins.
2. Borrowed composition.
3. Romantic.
4. Idealized.
5. Places the viewer off stage.
6. Dramatic and theatrical.
7. A Baroque interpretation.
8. Realism.
9. Art For Art’s Sake.
10. Linear.
11. Chiaroscuro reduced to local color.
12. Influenced by the flatness of Japanese prints.
13. Recessional composition.
14. Reality is the fact that the canvas is flat.
15. Time in flux.
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2. Art For Art’s Sake
Whistler: His Mother or Arrangement In Grey and Black
Subject matter was now
the visual elements of…
Compositional design
Space
Color
Paint and canvas

3. COMPAREPieter Claesz (c. 1597–1660), Still Life with Salt Tub Paul Cézanne Still Life with Apples

4. A NEW ROLE FOR
PAINT & CANVAS
REALISM
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
IMPRESSIONISM
Manet Renoir
Cézanne

5. Edgar Degas
What is new in
compositional
design here?
And what was
the source of this
new vision?
REALISM

6. No dramatic finish.
Local color emphasis.
Minimal modeling.
Even illumination.
Candid.
Degas
A debt of gratitude to
Courbet and Manet
Why would the
label “Romantic”
be inappropriate?

7. Real life’s candid moments.
Real paint's interpretation
Degas
Although influenced by the camera…

8. Say farewell to Romanticism.
Degas Bath
Common subjects
Undramatic and non-flattering poses
Pastel renderings

9. A moment in practice
is the performance.
How would a Romantic paint this?

10. East Meets WestWhistler Monet

11. Origin of the
IMPRESSIONIST Label
Monet & The
Impressionists

12. Monet The Saint-Lazare Station
Capturing sunlight on forms and
atmosphere at a particular
time of day.
The Moment
The Particular

13. The Rouen Cathedral Mission:
The effect of changing light

14. COLOR
LUMINOSITY
Achieved when colors of
similar hue & equal value
vanish at their boundaries.

15. At what point does the text vanish?
At what point does the text become luminous?

17. The Moment

18. Luminosity achieved through Vanishing Boundaries and Halations

20. Renoir & Monet
TWO IMPRESSIONISTS

21. FORM GIVES WAY
TO
COLOR & LIGHT
Renoir

22. Caillebotte Floor Scrapers
Other Impressionists and their worlds

23. Caillebotte: Rooftops Under Snow

24. Two Women
Impressionists
Mary Cassatt Berthe Marisot The Cradle

25. ”Impressionists
replaced the
gray toned works
associated
with traditional
studio art with
strokes of bright,
unmixed colour.”
Some art historians perpetuate a myth, when closer scrutiny reveals flawed seeing.
Note the difference between full chroma swatches and Monet's actual color palette.

26. Post-Impressionism:
Moving towards more
personal interpretations.
EXPRESSION
ABSTRACTION
FANTASY
Cézanne
van Gogh
Gauguin

27. Toulouse-Lautrec Portrait of van Gogh van Gogh Self-portrait
Mutual Influences

28. Empathy with a brush and without clients.
van Gogh: Potato Eaters

29. van Gogh The Blooming Plumtree
Eastern
Influence

30. Impressionist's influence
could not restrain personal
expression.
van Gogh Patch of Grass

31. Psychological
attachment
to color.
van Gogh Café Terrace at Night

32. Toulouse-Lautrec:
Subjects from
Paris night life.

33. Toulouse-Lautrec Moulin Rouge Patronage
Personal and social deformities.

34. The Entertainers of Lautrec's world.

35. Lautrec
Lautrec: Portrait of Justine Dieuhl
Nobility in search of another kind of nobility?

36. Gauguin: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
A search for a reality beneath appearances

37. Gauguin: Swineherd
From establishment
to painter of a
different society.

38. Gauguin: Spirit of the Dead Watching
The “Noble Savage”:
Portrayal of the significance of reality.
Why is the figure flattened?

39. Paying homage to color for its own sake.
Gauguin The White Horse
“…if you see a blue tree in the forest
and you like the color, paint it all blue!”

40. Photograph of Gauguin
The Great Escape
From Convention.
Gauguin: Self-Portrait

41. Seurat: Sunday Afternoon
Controlled
arrangements
of form and color.

42. Cézanne: Still Life with Apples
Particulars surrender
to the Universal