Impressionism

1860s - 1880

What Is Impressionism?

• An art movement & style of painting that started in France in the 1860s

• Depicts candid glimpses of subjects

• Shows the effects of sunlight on things during various times of day

Remember ELBOW

• E   Everyday life  • L   Light  • B   Brushstrokes  • O   Outdoor settings  • W   Weather  and atmosphere

Impressionists

• Claude Monet• Pierre Auguste Renoir• Camille Pissaro• Edgar Degas• Èdouard Manet

Manet

Bar at the Folies-Bergère

Manet

Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe

Monet

Waterlilies

Monet

Rouen Cathedral (various times of the day…)

Renoir

Le Moulin de la Galette

The Theatre

Box

Renoir

Degas

Green Dancer

Two Ballerinas

Post-Impressionis

m1880 - 1905

What Post-Impressionism Isn’t

• Building on Impressionist works, this art form rejects:– Naturalism– Fleeting effects of light

What Post-Impressionism Is

• Instead it showed a greater concern for:– Expression– Structure– Form

Post-Impressionists

• Paul Cézanne• Vincent Van Gogh• Paul Gauguin• Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

Seurat

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

Toulouse-Lautrec

Mont Sainte-Victoire

Large Bathers

Cézanne

Gauguin

Two Tahitian Women

Two Tahitian Women and Dog

Sunflowers

VanGogh

Church at Auvers

VanGogh

VanGogh

Harvest

                          

  

Starry Night

VanGogh

Self-Portrait with

a Straw Hat

VanGogh

Montmartre

Expressionism

1905 - 1930

The Scream

Munch

Kirchner

Nolde

Street Scene

Man, Woman, and Cat

Fauvism1904-1908

Matisse

Still Life with Blue Tablecloth

Goldfish and Sculpture

Matisse

Matisse

Dance

Cubism1908 – 1930s

Picasso

Woman with Hair Net

The Afficionado

Picasso

Guernica

Surrealism1920s – 1930s

The Persistence of Memory

Dali

DALI

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