Bell Ringer

1. Bell Ringer • M.Socrative.com – Room # 38178 • Question: • 1. WHEN, roughly, is Realism/Impressionism? I will pass out your notes from yesterday as soon as the bell rings – the answer to this question is on those notes.

2. Realism & Impressionism Art Movements

3. Realism

4. Realism • Realism: the general attempt to depict subjects as they are considered to exist, without embellishment or interpretation and “in accordance to secular rules.” • Characteristics: • Realistic, accurate appearance of the world – almost as clear as a photograph • Spontaneous • Ordinary people doing ordinarythings (usually LABOROUS things) • Harmonious colors • Faithfulness to observed lighting and atmospheric effects

5. Realism • Ran through the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s • Central Figure: Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) • Courbet was influenced by the innovations of Corot in terms of the play of light on shadows and peripheral vision • His aim was to make an objective and unprejudiced record of the customs, ideas, and appearances of contemporary French society

6. Courbet’s “The Stone Breakers” • Courbet painted 2 men as he had seen them working beside the road.

7. Courbet’s “The Stone Breakers” • The work is LIFE SIZE – 5ft x 8ft • Can tell the work is laborous

8. Courbet’s “A Burial at Ornans” • Painted as he saw it – no one posed or arranged • Obscure, unknown people

9. Jean-Francois Millet • Millet (1814-1875) • Belonged to the Barbizon School, which focused upon a realistic-Romantic vision of landscape • Typically used peasants as his subject matter

10. Jean-Francois Millet • He exalted the honest, simple life and work on the land • Determined to show the harsh reality of life • His worked was viewed as “anti-industrial”

11. Millet’s “Woman baking bread” • The peasant emerges as an heroic figure • The peasant women has added height and dominance thanks to the painters point of view • Ordinary woman doing an ordinary thing

12. Other Millet Works • The Gleaners The Sowers

13. Honore Daumier • Daumier (1808-1879) • Depicted urban scenes

14. Daumier’s “The Third Class Carriage” • Shows the interior of a large, horse-drawn bus in Paris

15. Daumier’s “The Third Class Carriage” • The viewer is in the seat opposite a grandmother, her daughter, and two grandchildren

16. Daumier’s “The Third Class Carriage” • They form a strong compositional triangle that contrasts with the people behind them, but they’re still not posed

17. EdouardManet • Manet (1832-1883) • Strove to paint “only what the eye can see” • His works go beyond a mere reflection of reality to a larger artistic reality • One which suggests that a painting has an internal logic different from the logic of familiar reality • Manet liberated the painter’s art from competition with the camera

18. Manet’s “Luncheon on the Grass” • Realism, but leading to Impressionism

19. Manet’s “Luncheon on the Grass” • Manet sought to “speak in a new voice”

20. Manet’s “Luncheon on the Grass” • Shocked the public (female nude while men dressed) – dream like

21. Manet’s “Luncheon on the Grass” • Ordinary people – Manet’s model, his brother, and the sculptor Leenhof

22. Manet’s “Luncheon on the Grass” • Took reality and put it in a mythical setting – with mythical touches (nudity)

23. Impressionism • Impressionism: a new way of seeing reality through color and motion, style based on an understanding of the interrelated mechanisms of the camera (new technology) and the eye • These painters tried to outdo photography • Impressionists emphasized the presence of color within shadows • Vision consists of the result of light and color making an “impression” on the retina

24. Impressionism • Characteristics: • Pleasant, comfortable scenes • Painted outdoors • Still ordinary people doing ordinary things, but PLEASANT things • Brushstrokes equalized across the canvas • Forms and objects best appear when the viewer is at a certain distance

25. Impressionism • The style lasted about 15 years in its purest form • Profoundly influenced all painting that followed • Working outside, the impressionists concentrated on the effects of natural light on objects and atmosphere • Their experiments resulted in a profoundly different vision of the world around them

26. Impressionism • For them, the painted canvas was a material covered with pigments (small color patches) which together, create lively, vibrant images • The subjects painted are impressions of landscapes, rivers, streets, cafes, theatres, and so on • Claude Monet brought impressionism to its birth

27. Claude Monet • Not to be confused with Manet • Monet (1840-1926) • Monet tried to find an art in modern life by recording everyday themes with on-the-spot, objective observations • Had two aims: (1) representation of contemporary subject matter and (2) optical truth (the way colors and textures really appear to the eye)

28. Claude Monet • Monet’s paintings reflect an innocent joy in the world around him and intensely positive view of life • He sought to bring realism to his peak (still ordinary people doing ordinary things, just in a different direction) • His work encompasses scientific observation, the study of optics, and other aspects of human perception

29. Monet’s “On the Seine at Bennecourt” • Conveys a pleasant picture of the times, an optimistic view rather than the often pessimistic outlook of the realists

30. Monet’s “On the Seine at Bennecourt” • Lack of atmospheric or linear perspective brings the entire painting to the foreground – no deep space

31. Monet’s “On the Seine at Bennecourt” • The scene is bright, alive, and pleasant – we’re comfortable

32. Monet’s “Series” • Monet painted several “series” (groups of paintings that work together or have a common theme) • Initially did them as a way of studying light and shadow • Most famous: the Water Lilies

33. Monet’s “Water Lillies” • A series of approximately 250 paintings • The paintings depict Monet’s flower garden and were the main focus of his artist production the last 30 years of his life • (Many were painted while he suffered from cataracts) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnABizX0jIo

34. Mary Cassatt • Cassatt (1845-1926) • Came to Paris from Philadelphia • It was her wealth in the US that helped the impressionists gain exposure and acceptance in this country

35. Cassatt’s “The Child’s Bath” • Depicts her favorite subjects – women and children • Cassatt’s brushwork is far less obvious than that in other impressionist works • Helped conventional viewers understand the work and relate closer to the scene • Painted in clear, bright colors

36. Cassatt’s “The Child’s Bath” • The subjects do NOT make eye contact with the viewer • The forms are purposeful, and they awaken interest, rather than emotion • Less brushstrokes and clearly not painting outdoors – but still a very pleasant comfortable scene • Realism is laborious!

37. Create your Own... Impressionist art classes

38. My Impressionist Painting • There are places that teach you to paint quickly – it won’t be the most gorgeous thing from up close, but looks great far away • “Uptown Art” is a very popular place in Louisville – off of Bardstown Road. Pinot’s Pallete is in St. Matthews and does the same thing. • Can be expensive ($40 for a 2-hour class) but includes all materials – canvas, paint, etc.

39. My Impressionist Painting

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42. My Impressionist Painting • This one is my MOMS! (the least artistic person on Earth!)

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44. Another Impressionist Painting