Materialists

Unlike the Romantics before them, Materialists embraced these concepts instead of rejecting them

Industrial Revolution/progress, and urbanization

While they were minimized or entirely omitted in Romantic art, the Materialists frequently painted them

People

Key characteristics of Materialist art

How did it look to the artist? How did it make the painter feel? What was the painter’s impression of what they were painting?

Subject: Working Class Train Passengers

Honore’ Daumier

Subject: Horses and Ballet Dancers

Edgar Degas

Subject: Tropical Landscapes and Primitive Cultures (especially Tahitian women)

Paul Gauguin

Subject: Fruit bowl- a timeless classic

Paul Cezanne

Subject: A surgical procedure

Thomas Eakins

Subject: A burial (someone died)

Gustave Courbet

A really cool painting made of a bunch of dots

Georges Seurat

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The Gulf Stream by Winslow Homer

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The Bath by Mary Cassat

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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte- Georges Seurat

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Le Moulin de la Gallette by Auguste Renoir

Van Gogh’s sister in law who saw him as a threat to her marriage

Johanna

Van Gogh’s cousin- he was madly in love with her, made advances, and wanted to marry her

Kee

What was the first career that Van Gogh was pursuing?

Protestant minister

It was the only painting Van Gogh sold while he was alive

The Red Vineyard

Why did Van Gogh spend time in the coal mines?

To better understand the lives of his congregation

Famous painter and friend of Van Gogh, later they became roomates

Paul Gaugin