AH119 - EXAM3 (def+paintings)

Trompe L’Oeil

• Trompe L’oeil is a French phrase that means “trick the eye”.

• It’s an artistic technique that creates the illusion of three-dimensional space & objects on a two-dimensional surface

Music and Literature by William Harnett (Realism; American)

The Desperate Man by Gustave Courbet (Realism; French)

The Stonebreakers by Gustave Courbet (Realism; French)

The Gleaners by Jean-Francois Millet (Realism)

Potato Planters by Jean-Francois Millet (Realism)

Dead Matador by Edouard Manet (Realism —> Impressionism; French)

Olympia by Edouard Manet (Realism —> Impressionism; French)

Impressionism

• A style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and color

• A literary or artistic style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve accurate depiction

Luncheon on the Grass by Edouard Manet (Realism —> Impressionism; French)

Bar at the Folies Bergere by Edouard Manet (Realism —> Impressionism; French)

Absinthe by Edgar Degas (Impressionism)

Café Concert at the Ambassadors by Edgar Degas (Impressionism)

Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet (Impressionism)

La Grenouillère by Claude Monet (Impressionism)

Tea by Mary Cassatt (Impressionism)

In the Loge by Mary Cassatt (Impressionism)

Japonisme

Japonisme is a French term coined in the late 19th century to describe the craze for Japanese art & design in the West

One Hundred Years of Edo by Hiroshige

Bridge in the Rain by Vincent Van Gogh (Japonisme; Dutch)

Ukiyo-E

• Ukiyo-e, meaning “pictures of the floating world,” are Japanese woodblock prints that flourished during the Edo period (1603-1867), depicting scenes of everyday life & landscapes

• Ukiyo-e prints are created using woodblock printing, a process where images are carved into a wooden block, inked, & then pressed onto paper

Hiroshige

Flowering Tree by Vincent Van Gogh (Japonisme; Dutch)

Princess in the Land of Porcelain by James McNeill Whistler (Japonisme; British)

Portrait of Emile Zola by Edouard Manet (Realism —> Impressionist/Japonisme; French)

The Japanese Woman by Claude Monet (Impressionist/Japonisme; French)

The Cradle by Berthe Morisot (Woman Impressionist)

The Sisters by Berthe Morisot (Woman Impressionist)

On the Terrace at Sevres by Marie Bracquemond (Woman Impressionist)

Under the Lamp by Marie Bracquemond (Woman Impressionist)

Awakening Woman by Eva Gonzales (Woman Impressionist)

The Loge by Eva Gonzales (Woman Impresssionist)

Pointillism (Post-Impressionism)

The practice of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from a distance, they visually blend together

Sunday on the Grande Jette by Georges Seurat (Post-Impressionist/Pointillism; French)

Bathers at Asnieres by Georges Seurat (Post-Impressionist/Pointillism; French)

Opus 217 by Paul Signac (Post-Impressionist/Pointillism; French)

The Bath by Pierre Bonnard (Post-Impressionist; French)

View of Cannet by Pierre Bonnard (Post-Impressionist; French)