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Nineteenth Century
Berthe Morisot
1841 - 1895
Berthe Morisot. Mother
and Sister of the Artist. 1870.
Chadwick,
Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. Third edition. New York: Thames &
Hudson Ltd., 2002.
Berthe Morisot. Summer's Day. 1879.
Mary Cassatt
1844 - 1926
Mary Cassatt. Woman in a Loge. 1879.
Mary Cassatt.
The Boating Party. 1893 - 1894.
Preble,
Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice
Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.
Mary Cassat. Mother About
to Wash Her Sleepy Child. 1880.
Bullard, E. John. Mary Cassatt: Oils and
Pastels. Watson-Guptill Publications: New York, 1998.
Mary Cassatt. Maternal Caress. 1891.
Mary Cassatt. Mother and Child.
c. 1905.
Chadwick,
Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. Third edition. New York: Thames
& Hudson Ltd., 2002.
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
Edgar Degas. The
Rehearsal on Stage. c. 1874.
Stokstad,
Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice
Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.
Edouard Manet. A Bar at the Folies-Bergere. 1881-82.
Claude Monet. Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in Sun). 1894.
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Historic
Context
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1861 - 1865
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Civil War
in the United States
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| 1865 | Assassination of Lincoln |
| 1869 | Susan B. Anthony organizes Women's Suffrage movement |
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1870
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Franco Prussian
War
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1876
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Alexander
Graham Bell patents the telephone
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1879
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First light
bulb invented
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1885
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First automobiles
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| 1886 | Last Impressionist exhibition |
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1894
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Development
of motion pictures
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Post-Impressionsim
1885 - 1900
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"I
had wrung Impressionism dry, and I finally came to the conclusion that
I knew neither how to paint nor how to draw. In a word, Impressionism
was a blind alley, as far as I was concerned." - Renoir
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Post-impressionism
= general term applied to various personal styles of painting that developed
as a reaction against the formless and aloof quality of Impressionism.
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Post-Impressionists
developed very personal styles
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Artists
begin to focus on individual expression
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General
move towards complete abstraction
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Impressionism
vs. Post-Impressionism
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Style:
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Clear
and cohesive; characterized by loose, quick brushwork, and an examination
of color and light
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Various
artists develop personal styles
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Goal:
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To
capture momentary impressions
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No
overall goal
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Some
sought to solidify form and composition
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Some
sought personal and spiritural expression
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Typical
subject:
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Nature
and everyday life
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Continued
move away from naturalism towards complete abstraction
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Book
recognizes four principle Post-Impressionist artists:
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Vincent
van Gogh
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Paul
Gauguin
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Georges
Seurat
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Paul
Cezanne
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Vincent van Gogh
1853 - 1890
Vincent
van Gogh. Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear. 1889.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank.
Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.
Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night. 1889.
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"Just
as we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach
a star." - Vincent van Gogh
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Impasto
= thick applications of pigment that give a painting a palpable surface
texture
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Second most expensive painting in the world
Vincent
van Gogh. The Sower. 1888.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank.
Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.
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Van Gogh's
new way of seeing:
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Exploited
new colors
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Used color
symbolically, for personal expression
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Distorted
forms
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Worked very
rapidly
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Vincent
Van Gogh, after Hiroshige. Japonaiserie: Flowering Plum Tee. 1887.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank.
Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.
