Modern Art: From Impressionism to Expressionism Russ McNeil

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Modern Art From Impressionism to
ExpressionismRuss McNeil

• Impressionism
• Post-impressionism
• Fauvism
• Pointillism
• Art Nouveau
• Symbolism
• Group of Seven
• Expressionism
• Surrealism

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Impressionism

• An attempt to accurately and objectively record
  visual reality in terms of transient effects of
  light and colour.

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Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889)
The Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo
Malatesta
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Adolphe-William Bouguereau
(1825-1905) The Knitting Girl
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Claude Monet (1840-1926) Houses of Parliament
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Madame Charpentier and Her
Children
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Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) The
Chestnut Trees at Osny
note Impressionist
martyr
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Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) Bridge at
Villeneuve-la-Garenne
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Berthe Morisot
(1841-1895) In a Park
Note Manet Influence
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Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin
(1841-1927) Sunset at Ivry
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Frederic Bazille (1841-1870) Bazille's
Studio 9 rue de la Condamine
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Edgar Degas (1834-1917) The Rehearsal
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Edouard Manet (1832-1833)
Luncheon on the Grass
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Post-impressionism

• Post-Impressionism is an umbrella term used to
  describe a variety of artists who were influenced
  by Impressionism but took their art in different
  directions.

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Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
Mont-St-Victoire (1885)
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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Spirit of the Dead Watching
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Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
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Van Gogh Night Cafe
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Van Gogh Starry Night
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) In the
Salon of the Rue des Moulins
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Henri Julien Felix Rousseau
(1844-1910) The Dream
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Fauvism

• Short lived movement but one that marked the
  advent of Modernism. The style of painting, using
  non-naturalistic colors, was one of the first
  avant-garde developments in European art.

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Henri Matisse
(1869-1954) The Joy of Life
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Pointillism

• Form of painting in which the use of tiny
  primary-color dots is used to generate secondary
  colors

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Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
neo-impressionist
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Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an elegant decorative art style
characterized by intricately detailed patterns of
curving lines.
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Alphonse Mucha (18601939)
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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
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Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926)
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Symbolism
Late 19th c. movement that influenced many modern
trends.
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Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)
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Odilon Redon (1840-1916) Smiling Spider
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Pierre Puvis de
Chavannes (1824-1898 )
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Group of Seven
Group of Seven artists were strongly influenced
by Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism,
and Art Nouveau and Symbolism - creating bold,
vividly-colored canvases, and instilling elements
of the landscape with symbolic meaning.
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Franklin Carmichael (1890-1945 ) North Shore,
Lake Superior
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A. J . Casson (1898-1992 ) White Pine
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Lionel Fitzgerald (1890-1956) Doc Snider's House
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Edwin Holgate (1892-1977) Canadian
Destroyers, Halifax
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A.Y. Jackson (1882-1974) Houses of Ypres
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Arthur Lismer (1885-1969) Canadian Jungle
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J.E.H. MacDonald (1873-1932) Oaks, October
Morning
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F.H. Varley (1881-1969) Stormy Weather,
Georgian Bay
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Frank Johnston (18881949) Camp
Borden (1919)
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Lawren Harris (1885-1970) Afternoon Sun, North
Shore, Lake Superior, 1924
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Lawren Harris Miners Houses, Glace
Bay
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Expressionism

• Expressionism is a style of art in which the
  intention is not to reproduce a subject
  accurately, but instead to portray it in such a
  way as to express the inner state of the artist.

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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) Couple Riding
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Franz Marc (1880-1916) Yellow Cow
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Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) - Nude -- Caryatid
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Edvard Munch (1863-1944 ) Dead Mother
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Gershon Iskowitz (1921-1988 )
Sky
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Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945 )
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Paul Klee (1879-1940)
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Surrealism
Fantastic visual imagery from the subconscious
mind.
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Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) Metaphysical
Interior with Factory
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Yves Tanguy (1900-1955) Indefinite Divisibility
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Dorothea Tanning (1910-) Ein klein
nachtmusik
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Salvador Dali (1904-1989)