ARTS: Impressionism

IMPRESSIONISM

·         Salon – France’s official art exhibition

-          Held annually in Paris

·         Impression: Sunrise

·         Impressionism – attempts to capture the rapidly changing effect of sunlight on objects

·         Claude Monet

·         Pierre Auguste Renoir – paralyzed

·         Berthe Morisot – family members

-          Painted her daughter (Julie) and her niece (Jeannie)

·         Auguste Rondin – created sculptures

-          Started drawing when he was 10

-          14 y/o, he studied at Petite Ecole

-          Tried to gain admission at Ecole des Beaux-Arts and failed thrice

POST-IMPRESSIONISM

·         Post – Impressionism – various trends in painting that followed Impressionism

·         Paul Cezanne – revealed how color patches carefully angled in different directions mimicked solid forms

·         Vincent Van Gogh – twisted lines and forms, intense colors, and rich textures to express deep emotions

-          Suffered from mental illness

-          Drew the Cypress Trees

·         Paul Gauguin – successful banker in Paris

-          Felt that artists should be free to use color

-          More decorative than realistic

-          Composition and content

-          Tahitian Landscape