Impressionist Art and Symbolist Poetry

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Impressionist ArtandSymbolist Poetry

• A Web Guide

Lorraine Witzburg
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Purpose

• This Web Guide is designed as a resource for the
  development and production of curriculum and
  multi-media materials for interdisciplinary
  studies of Impressionist art and Symbolist poetry
  Each site which has been included has been
  annotated, and selected because it offers some
  element which would make it particularly valuable
  to high school teachers and students interested
  in exploring these two interrelated currents in
  French intellectual history and in designing
  integrated materials to support their study.

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Criteria for Choosing Sites

• Is it easy to get information from the site? Is
  the site clear, uncluttered, and easy to read?
• Is it necessary to use special software to view
  the page? Is it free to obtain the information
  on the page?
• Is the text well-written and literate?
• Are graphics on the site appropriate and do they
  enhance the text material?
• Is the page signed by its author? If so, is the
  authors email address provided? Is it possible
  to ascertain whether the sites author has some
  academic expertise on the topic? Can you
  determine whether by linking their own pages to
  this page other experts in the field validate the
  reputable nature of this page?
• Is the page dated and current?
• Is this site part of an official web site with a
  responsible sponsor? What is the domain of the
  document? Does the publisher list his/her
  qualifications?
• Is this site a vehicle for advertising? Can you
  tell why and for whom the page was written?
• Does the text contain a bibliography? Are
  sources cited properly?
• Do most of the links provided on the page lead to
  active sites? Do they lead to useful sources?
  Are the linked pages of appropriately high
  quality? Do the linked pages contain reliable
  information?

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• French Painting of the 19th Century
• This site contains on-line tours of various
  Impressionist artists (some with audio), in-depth
  studies of three paintings by Degas and Manet,
  and a virtual exhibition tour of works by VanGogh.

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• Impressionism - Wikipedia
• A wikipedia article which presents an overview of
  Impressionism, a summary of its history, and a
  discussion of techniques, content, and
  composition. The article introduces and provides
  links to articles on individual Impressionist
  artists including Frédéric Bazille , Gustave
  Caillebotte , Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Edgar
  Degas, Armand Guillaumin, Édouard Manet, Claude
  Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro,
  Pierre-Auguste Renoir , and Alfred Sisley.

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• Impressionism WebMuseum, Paris
• This site is an extremely rich source of
  information and images. The article on
  impressionism introduces the movement, discusses
  its founders and its history, and provides links
  to individual artists. Individual artist
  articles contain informative text as well as a
  gallery of images. Many of the images have links
  to a separate article focused on that one
  painting which provides detailed explications of
  theme and technique.

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• Impressionism WetCanvas Virtual Museum
• An inviting site which contains a variety of
  internal links and which explores individual
  impressionist artists in the context of a
  particular theme (e.g. The Artist Becomes
  IndeptendentGustave Courbet Composition for its
  Own Sake Edouard Manet Recording Figures and
  Movement Degas and Renoir Painitng of Time
  Claude Monet Color and Composition Systematized
  Georges Seurat The Artist as Rebel and
  Visionary Paul Gaughin, etc.).

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• The First Impressionist Exhibition, 1874 Mark
  Hardens Archive
• This page offers the opportunity to view the
  paintings by Monet, Pissarro, Morisot, Degas,
  Sisley, Boudin, and Cezanne which were exhibited
  in the first Impressionist exhibibion. Clicking
  on an artists name brings up images of his/her
  paintings with an opportunity to zoom in, to read
  what contemporary critics said about the
  painting, and to see the catalog entry for the
  painting. This site also contains the text of
  four articles (translated into English) from
  April and May, 1874 which represent the criticism
  of the Impressionists published at the time in
  response to the first exhibition of their work.

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• Paintings, Pastels and Drawings Musée dOrsay
• In this list of selected masterpieces, there are
  representative works (often the best-known works)
  of the Impressionists. Clicking on the title of
  the work brings up an image of the painting as
  well as a short critical essay on the painting.
  (Symbolist artists including Puvis de Chavannes,
  Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, Maurice Denis
  appear here as well.)

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• Movements in late Nineteenth Century Art Mark
  Hudelson, Associate Professor of Art History
  Palomar College
• This page is a concise guide to the major art
  movements of the late nineteenth century. Each
  entry indentifies artists associated with the
  movement, typical subject matter and style,
  examples, and influences on future artistis and
  movements. It provides an easy overview for
  students who are beginning their study of 19th
  century art and helps students to place the
  artists they are studying in context.

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• Symbolism (arts) - Wikipedia
• A link-rich wikipedia article which traces the
  roots of the Symbolist movement in literature
  from its origins in Baudelaires Les Fleurs du
  Mal through the poetry of Mallarmé and Verlaine.
  In the section on techniques it explores
  synesthesia and provides a link to an interesting
  interactive article on synesthesia. It provides
  quotations from Baudelaires poem
  Correspondences and Rimbauds poem Voyelles
  to illustrate the identification of one sense
  experience with another. It contains a
  discussion as well of symbolist artists and the
  influence of the Symbolist aesthetic on the music
  of Claude Debussy. The article goes on to note
  the important influence of Symbolism on the
  development of both Expressionism and Surrealism.

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• A Brief Guide to the Symbolists The Academy of
  American Poets
• The introductory essay provides a succinct
  overview of Symbolism as a link between the
  Romantic movement which preceded it and the
  Surrealist movement which followed it.

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• Biography Stéphane Mallarmé
• This page contains the 1891 interview of Mallarmé
  by Jules Huret translated and excerpted from an
  article by Henri Dorra, Symbolist Art Theories,
  published in 1994 by the University of California
  Press.

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• Charles Baudelaire Huck Gutman, Professor of
  English, University of Vermont
• In addition to providing a brief introduction to
  the poet, this page provides a link to audio
  files of lectures in which Professor Gutman
  examines four of Baudelaires poems. In the
  audio, he reads the poems (in Richard Howards
  translation) and discusses them.

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• Baudelaire Poète.com
• A rich site in which the French text of
  Baudelaires poems are accompanied by art work
  (by, among others, Chavannes, Moreau, Redon,
  Caillebotte)a valuable resource for a unit which
  pursues interdisciplinary threads between art and
  poetry. Some of the poems also have links to
  audio. (Check, for example, LInvitation au
  Voyage set to music by Henri Duparc with
  orchestra directed by Kostelanetz and singing by
  Lily Pons.)

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• He called to the sky above the rooftopsPaul
  Verlaine
• Biographical information and discussion of the
  art of Verlaines poetry presented in a readable,
  magazine article format presented by Label
  France, a publication of the French Ministry of
  Foreign Affairs.

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• Arthur Rimbaud Tous les Textes (1870-1875)
• An annotated collection of Rimbauds poems.

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• Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine
• A rich source of links to other sites, both
  internal and external, for information about
  Rimbaud and Verlaine.

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• Rimbaud Arthur150ième Anniversaire de la
  Naissance Conseil Régional Champagne-Ardenne
• An animated, multi-media French site constructed
  to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Rimbauds
  birth, sponsored by the Council of Cultural
  Affairs of Champagne-Ardenne.

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Bibliography

• Selecting Resources
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• Schultz, A. The teacher's Cyber yardstick.
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• (2005). Web sites Overview - Key ideas.
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• Impressionist Art
• Impressionism. (2006). In Wikipedia Web.
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• Hudelson, M. (2004). Movements in Late 19th
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  prof.hudelson's website Web site
  http//daphne.palomar.edu/mhudelson/StudyGuides/1
  9thCent_WA.ht ml

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• Pioch, N. (2006). Impressionism. Retrieved July
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  mbaud_sommaire.htm

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• Dinsmore, C. (1994). Biogrpahy - Interview -
  Mallarme. Retrieved July 11, 2006, from Studio
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• Gutman, H. Retrieved July 11, 2006, from Charles
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  Baudelaire.htm
• He called to the sky above the rooftops...Paul
  Verlaine. Retrieved July 11, 2006, from The
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• (2006). Arthur Rimbaud sur le Web. Retrieved
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• (2006). 150eme Anniversaire de la Naissance.
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The End

• Lorraine Witzburg
• Dover-Sherborn High School