·      Roman referred to novels, horror stories, far from the romanticism that first comes in mind, dramatic stories with fear

·      Mankind is not ideal, he is simultaneously great and wretched

·      Move away from academia

·      Represent man’s inhumanity to man

·      The teenage art movement, miserable

·      Passions as opposed to principles – colore

·      Napoleon is ruling France

Beginning of the age of technology – creation of machines to replace man’s labor

Everybody died of consumption (filled lungs with smoke)

Representation that inspires awe and a feeling of something “larger than life”

Overthrow of the government

the symbol of rome

The middle class

The “Here and Now”

The process of Art

We are going to use painting to cristize painting

Showo the process of paint = brush strokes

·      Emerges in the mid-nineteenth century in Paris

·      Attempting to create objective representations of the external world as viewed directly by the artist.

·      Consciously democratic, including subject matter that had previously been considered unworthy or vulgar

·      If you don’t see it, it doesn’t exist

Salon of the Refused art, 1863, additional exhibition of refused art from the French Acadmic salon – beginning of the philosophy of modernism

Influence of Japanese prints on nineteenth century Western artists, it’s the technique they use, cropping

Sketching and/or painting out of doors in order to capture the immediate effects of natural light

beauty

Art for art’s sake

Art without morals, narrative etc.

Beauty and beauty alone

·      The anonymous society of the artists,

·      Visible brush strokes

·      Emphasis on light and its changing qualities

·      Ordinary subject matter (genre)

·      Inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience

·      Unusual visual angles

·      Name given by art critic, Roger Fry

·      Cezanne, Seurat, Van Gogh and Gauguin

·      No formal organization

·      Followed Impressionism’s modernist interest and bright palette

·      Added formal elements (line, form, shape)

optical blending, don’t blend color on palette, chromoluminarism,

·      Literary movement, begun in France

·      Rejected social consciousness of Realism

·      Rejected interest in nature of Impressionism

·      Main focus is interior – man’s soul or dreams

·      Drawn to dreams, myths, the macabre and the poetic

wild beasts,

·      group of artists who appeared to substitute raw energy for draftsmanship and technique.

·      Primary colors were dominant

·      Clearly influenced by van Gogh and Gauguin

• Opposed to the “older” well-established powers
• Wanted to create a bridge to the future
• Influenced by Nietzsche
• Opposed to bourgeoisie lifestyle (the middle class way of living, shopping)
• Considered Bohemians

·      Focus was on visually expressiong a spirituality that resided beneath the surface of the visual world

·      Used color as a language

·      Theosophy

·      Cubism that is constructed of exterior materials, paper and other materials collage, the birth of Collage

·      Provoke the question of what is real and what is not

·      Collage= to stick

A combination of Fauvism and cubism, with reference to the spirituality of color and the spiritual experience of flight

Futurism

·      Italian movement

·      Used cubism’s formal ssiscoveries to represent figures and machines in motion and to express a new universal dynamim

·      The machine was the dawn of a new era for Futurism

·      A nonrepresentational style of at develop in Russia in the early twentieth century

·      Used severely simple geometric shapes or forms

·      Extremely limited palette

·      Goal: to convey that the supreme reality in the world is pure feeling, which can sttach itself to no object

cutting edge artists