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Early Modern Art

Early Modern Art. Themes in Early Modern Art. Uncertainty/insecurity. Disillusionment. The subconscious. Overt sexuality. Violence & savagery. Impressionism. Focus was on: Modern Life Social life Leisure activities Urban middle and lower classes 2) Esthetic Light, color

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Early Modern Art

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  1. Early Modern Art

  2. Themes in Early Modern Art • Uncertainty/insecurity. • Disillusionment. • The subconscious. • Overt sexuality. • Violence & savagery.

  3. Impressionism Focus was on: • Modern Life • Social life • Leisure activities • Urban middle and lower classes 2) Esthetic • Light, color • Unfocused visual experience

  4. Artists • Edward Manet (1837- 1883) • Claude Monet (1840- 1926) • Pierre- August Renoir (1841- 1919) • Edgar Degas (1834- 1917)

  5. Impressionist Movement • Began in Paris • Artists recorded the leisure activities of Parisians ( concerts, cafes, picnics, beach parties etc.) • Backdrop was Paris as it had been under Napoleon III (1852- 1870)

  6. Manet

  7. Post- impressionism • Continuation of Impressionism not a reaction against it • These artists wanted to join impressionism to earlier artistic traditions • More importance is placed on form and structure

  8. Post- impressionist artists • Georges Seurat (1859- 1891) • Paul Cezanne • Vincent Van Gogh • Paul Gauguin (1848- 1903)

  9. Georges Surat

  10. Paul Guguin

  11. Georges Braque: Violin & Candlestick (1910) CUBISM • The subject matter is broken down, analyzed, and reassembled in abstract form. • Cezanne  The artist should treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone.

  12. Cubist Artists • Pablo Picasso (1881- 1973) • Georges Braque (1882- 1963)

  13. Georges Braque: Woman with a Guitar(1913)

  14. Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)

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