May 8
Rise of Modernism

 

 

Book recognizes four principle Post-Impressionist artists:
Vincent van Gogh
Paul Gauguin
Georges Seurat
Paul Cezanne

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vincent van Gogh
1853 - 1890

 

 

Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night. 1889.

 

 

"Just as we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star." - Vincent van Gogh

 

 

Impasto = thick applications of pigment that give a painting a palpable surface texture

 

 

 

 

Van Gogh's Irises

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

Van Gogh's new way of seeing:
Exploited new colors
Used color symbolically, for personal expression
Distorted forms
Worked very rapidly
Often worked straight from the tube

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

Van Gogh and Japanese prints

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Gauguin
1848 - 1903

 

 

Self-portrait of Gauguin with Idol

 

 

 

Day of the God

Paul Gauguin. Mahana no atua (Day of the God). 1894.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spirit of the Dead Watching

Paul Gauguin. Spirit of the Dead Watching. 1892.
Tansey, Richard C. and Fred S. Kleine. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Tenth ed. Vol. 2. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996. 2 vols.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Georges Seurat
1859 - 1891

 

 

"I painted like that because I wanted to get through to something new - a kind of painting that was my own." - Georges Seurat

 

 


Sunday on La Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat. A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte. 1884 - 86.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Divisionism (pointilism) = style of painting in which non-primary colors are generated, not by the mixing of pigments in the palette nor by using pigments directly, but by the visual mixing of points of primary colors, placed in close proximity to each other

 

 

 

 

Detail of Sunday on La Grande Jatte

Detail of Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

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