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AT106 - Final
Realism to Feminist Art
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
04/18/2012

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-Realism-

Gustav Courbet

"The Stone Breakers", 1849

- Unacceptable subject matter

- Makes you feel sympathy for the lower class

- See them as type s because we don't see their faces

- Represents a life time of labor 


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-Realism-

Gustav Courbet

"Burial at Ornans", 1849

- Rebelling against academic standards

- Unacceptable treatment of a subject

- Unacceptable technique

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-Realism-

Jean-Francois Millet

"The Glearers" 1857

- Makes us feel sympathy for the poor

- Unacceptable subject matter

- Reminded people of the 1848 workers uprising

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-Realism-

Honoré Daumier

"Rue Transnonain" 1834

- Social realist

- Prints are cheap, easy to produce and distribute

- Black and white creates drama

- Low vantage point makes you part of the scene

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-Realism-

Édouard Manet

"Luncheon on the Grass" 1863

- Nudity only allowed under the veil of mythology

- Unacceptable subject matter

- Unacceptable technique

- Recalls masterpieces to aligh himself w/ them 

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-Realism-

Édouard Manet

"Olympia" 1863

- Unacceptable subject matter

-Unacceptable technique due to contour

- Contour flattens out subject

- Influence of "The Venus of Orbeno" to align himself w/ the masters

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-Early Photograpy-

Louis-Jacques-Mandre Daguerre

"The Artist's Studio" 1837

- One of the first to permanently fix a photograph

- His photographs were unique

- Types of photos were called "Daguerro types"

- Still life because of long expose and wanted it to be an art"

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-Impressionism-

Claude Monet

"Impressionism: Sunrise" 1872

- Panting on plaein air (painting in the open air)

- Loose brushstrokes to create fleeting effects

- First to be labled as impressionism

 

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-Impressionism-

Pierre-August Renoir

"Le Moulin de la Galette" 1876

- Trying to capture light through the trees

- Capturing the effects of movement

- Capturing leisure time of the masses

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-Impressionism-

Edgar Degas

"The Rehersal on Stage" c1874

- Not interested in the effects of natural light

- Capturing the effects of movement

- Influence of photography

- Tilted perspective

- Influence of japanese prints

- Uses congested areas next to open areas

- Center figure is not given central focus

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-Impressionism-

Mary Cassatt

"Mother and Child" c1890

- Went to france to be accepted as a female painter

- Shows influence of jappanese prints

- Wrongly accused of being a feminine painter

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-Neo Impressionism-

Georges Seurat

"A Sunday on La Grand Jatte" 1884-1886

- Used color theory and optics

- Uses the pointillist technique

- Capturing leisure time

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-Post Impressionism-

Van Goh

"Starry Night", 1889

- Using his art for therapy

- View from his mental asylum window

- Two verticals represent death and everlasting life

- User of complimentary colors

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-Post Impressionism-

Paul Cezanne

"Mount Sainte-Victoire" c1885-87

- The godfather of cubism

- Breaking forms down into planes

- Uses color temperature to give 3D detail

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-Symbolism-

Paul Gauguin

"Spirit of the Dead Watching" 1892

- Painting a primitive world he did not find

- Paints her sexualized instead of frightened

- Painting a sterotype

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-Symbolism-

Edvard Munch

"The Scream" 1893

- Overcome by the vastness of nature

- His scream effects the landscape

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-Fauvism-

Henri Matisse

"Woman with a Hat" 1905

-Wild non-natural colors

- Very aggressive brush stroke

- Uses all-over technique

- Traditional subjects

 

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-Analytical Cubism-

Pablo Picasso

"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" 1907

- This begins cubism

- Breaking forms down into individual planes

- Radical depiction of space

- Influenced by African masks

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-Analytical Cubism-

Georges Braque

"Ma Jolie" 1911-12

- Dull color to focus on form

- The distinction between figure and ground is removed

- Mature analytical cubism

- Breaking forms down into individual planes

 

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-Synthetic Cubism-

Pablo Picasso

"Glass and Bottle of Suze" 1912

- Taking a low art form and turning into a (ask)

- Using collage

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-German Expressionism-

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 

"Street Berlin" 1913

- Anti-modern world critique

- Has a disturbing quality

- He is a utopian

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-German Expressionism-

Vassily Kandinsky

"Improvisation 28" 1912

- Color carries meaning and emotion

- The first to go completley abstract

- Known for his apocalyptic images

 

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