Modern Art: Manet to Post-Impressionism

What was the effect of photography on art?

if the purpose of art was to make realistic paintings, then it was in direct competition with photography; thus, photography changes the world of art significantly…

Name three artistic movements and artistic in France in the 1800s

Modernism: Edouard Manet (1832-1883)

Impressionism: Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Post-Impressionism: Georges Seurat (1859-1891)

Luncheon on the Grass (artist)

Edouard Manet

Luncheon on the Grass (date)

1863

Luncheon on the Grass (material)

oil on canvas

Luncheon on the Grass (location)

Paris, Salon Entry

Luncheon on the Grass (details)

• Big canvas

• Scandalous, different kind of nude: the woman has intentionally taken off her clothing and is looking out at the viewer

• Compare with Titian’s Pastoral Concert and Raphael’s Judgement of Paris

Salon

the annual official art exhibit sponsored by the French Art Academy (state-sponsored)

A bar at the Folies-Bergère (artist)

Edouard Manet

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (date)

1882

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (material)

oil on canvas

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (location)

Paris

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (details)

• we are the man

• reflection is impossible

• she looks unhappy, zoned out

• still life included

• lady in white in background

• trapeze artist, dynamic background

• bartenders were prostitutes

Impression, Sunrise (artist)

Claude Monet

Impression, Sunrise (date)

1872

Impression, Sunrise (location)

Le Havre, Paris

Impression, Sunrise (material)

oil on canvas

Impression, Sunrise (details)

criticized for being unfinished

freezing a moment in time = impressionism

light flickering on water, etc

impression of sunrise, not actual sunrise

Impressionism

a late 19th century art movement that sought to capture a fleeting moment, thereby conveying the elusiveness and impermanence of images and conditions

The Child’s Bath (artist)

Mary Cassatt

The Child’s Bath (date)

1893

The Child’s Bath (location)

Paris

The Child’s Bath (details)

• perspective is off

• very compressed, lots of pattern

• women as caretakers of children

• mundane tasks have not been seen before in art (except Mary and Christ)

watercolor

paint made with a water-soluble binder such as gum arabic, and thinned with water rather than oil, giving a transparent color

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (artist)

Georges Seurat

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (date)

1884-1886

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (material)

oil on canvas

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (location)

Paris

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (details)

• pointilism

• wants to blend classicism with impressionism

• science of color

• frame is color

pointilism

a system of painting where the artist separates color into its component parts and then applies the component colors to the canvas in tiny dots (points); the image becomes comprehensible only from a distance, when the viewer’s eyes optically blend the pigment dots