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Impressionism
Brief study of works by Manet, Pissaro, Monet, and Courbet, as well as some related terms
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
02/15/2012

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Bourgeois
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Ordinary, working class
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Bohemian
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Unconventional artists leading lives of unconformity
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Ultimate Truth
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Standard of beauty is personal, personal vision of what is beautiful, opposite of "universal standard of beauty"
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Rold of art critics (Zola)
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To study the languages (how a work of art speak to cultures and civilizations) and to say what new subtlety and energy they possess
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Manet, The Fifer
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Manet, The Street Singer
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Manet, Lola de Valence
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Zola on Public
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Mob mentality, originality shocks, narrow-minded
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Function of impressionism
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not to imitate nature, but to recreate it
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Avant-garde
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Primarily rejects styles of the Classical period, but more importantly describes works of art that have a certain political stance
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Role of avant-garde artists
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To strive to make statements about politics in their work and to change the public on how they think socially and politically
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Aesthetics
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Rigorousness of form, standard of beauty
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Manet, Young Lady in 1866
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Manet, Madame Manet at Bellevue
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Manet, Luncheon on the Grass (Dejeuner sur l'herbe)
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Manet, Olympia
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Manet, Dead Christ and the Angels
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Manet, Argenteuil
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Manet, White Lilacs in a Glass
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Manet, Bar at Folies Bergeres
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Impasto
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Patches of brushwork that defines that style used in Impressionistic paintings
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Pissaro, La Recolte des Foins
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Monet, Impression, Sunrise
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Monet, Poppy Field in Argenteuil
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Courbet, Source of the Loue
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Courbet, Landscape Near Indre
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