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    Art History-19 Century Birth of "Isms": - Neoclassisim - Romanticism - Realism - Impressionism - Post-Impressionism

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    This document provides an overview of major art movements from the 19th century, including Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism. It discusses the key characteristics, founders, and examples of each "ism," highlighting styles like realistic depictions of everyday life, interest in light and color, and reduction of forms to basic shapes. Major artists mentioned include David, Delacroix, Courbet, Monet, Manet, Seurat, van Gogh, and Cezanne.

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    Art History-19th Century

    Birth of “Isms”
    • Neoclassisim
    • Romanticism
    • Realism
    • Impressionism
    • Post-Impressionism
    Neoclassism
    • 1780-1820
    • Words associated with this period-virtue;
    patriotism;
    • Tone: calm, rational
    • Technique: stressed drawing with lines not
    color, smooth surface and glossy, no trace of
    brushstrokes
    • ordered grids,
    Neoclassical
    • Values:
    • Order, solemnity
    • Subjects: Greek & Roman History
    • Role of Art: Morally uplifting, inspirational
    • Founder & leader of movement: David
    • French & British Academies behind,
    preached that reason, not emotion, should
    dictate art
    Oath of the Horatii

    Jacque Louis David


    1784
    Louvre, Paris, France
    Romanticism
    • Dramatic, emotional, violent energy;
    Themes-liberty power of nature;
    compare/associations to Baroque – ‘history
    repeats itself’
    Romanticism
    • Imaginative idealized creations
    • Values: Intuition, Emotion, Imagination
    • Inspiration: Medieval & Baroque eras,
    Middle and Far East
    • Tone: Subjective, spontaneous,
    nonconformist
    Romanticism continued…
    • Color: Unrestrained, deep rich shades of
    color
    • Subjects: Legends,exotica, nature, violence
    • Genres: Narratives of heroic struggle,
    landscapes, wild animals
    • Technique: Quick brushstrokes, strong
    light-and-shade contrasts
    • Composition: Use of diagonals
    Gericault (Raft of the Medusa,
    1818) & Delacroix (Liberty
    Leading the People, 1830)
    • Teacher and his student
    • Gericault (Raft of the Medusa, 1818) &
    Delacroix (Liberty Leading the People,
    1830)
    Early Photo-Realism
    • Photo realism; tromp l’oeil-fool the eye
    • Ultra realistic painting, American painter
    Harnett
    Realism
    • Unadulterated rendering; poor people in
    everyday situations; landscapes
    Realism

    • Courbet, the father of the Realist movement


    • Portrayed drab figures at everyday tasks
    • First one man show, when rejected by an art
    jury built a shed to show his painting
    Interior of My Studio
    • Burial of Ornans,
    • The Stone Breakers,
    French Realism:

    • Courbet
    • Corot
    • Millet, Barbazon School
    American Realism
    • Winslow Homer
    • Eakins
    Art for art’s sake
    • James McNeil Whistler
    • Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1,
    1872, Muse d’Orsay, Paris
    • Nocturn in Black and Gold: the Falling
    Rocket, 1875
    Manet
    • Often called the “Father of Modern Art”
    • 1832-1883
    • Never exhibited with the Impresionists
    • Striped away idealizing mythology to
    portray modern life candidly
    • Sketchy brushwork-images appear flat and
    hard
    Manet, “Olympia”, 1863
    “Dejeuner sue l’herbe” (1863)
    “ The Luncheon on the Grass”
    Luncheon:
    • Painting offended on moral and aesthetic
    grounds
    • Indecent because the nude was not idealized
    • (nudity was only acceptable if disguised in
    Classical trappings)
    • Based on historic art precedent, Giorgione,
    Titian,
    • Brushstrokes, applied in broad strokes
    Impressionism
    • En plein air-Paint outside
    • Concerned with effects of light;
    • Dabs of pure color painted side by side
    • Viewer’s eye blends the colors
    • Shadows not black but blends of colors
    • Country, City associated with
    Impressionism-France, Paris
    Compositions
    • Japanese prints and new tool influenced
    Impressionists; cropping-cutting off
    • Camera/photography
    Impressionists
    • Grouped together because of way painted
    and concern for light
    • Purpose; to portray immediate visual
    sensations of a scene
    • Impressionists: Manet, Monet. Renior,
    Degas
    • Also: Pizzaro, Sisley, Marisot, Casatt
    • 1862-1886
    Impressionist subjects:
    • Outdoors, seaside, Parisian streets and cafes
    Post-Impressionism
    • Grouped together because making art at the
    same time- but not because of similar style
    • 1880-1905
    • Post Impressionists: Seurat, Toulouse-
    Lautrec, Cezanne, Gauguin, van Gogh
    Different styles
    • Small dots of pure color on canvas, Seurat
    • Pointillists
    • Textural paint, sick man
    • van Gogh
    • Reduce to basic shapes: cone, cylinder,
    • Cezanne
    “Starry Night”
    Pointillism, Seurat, “A Sunday on
    La Grande Jatte” 1884-1886
    Cezanne, “Still Life”
    Cezanne
    • Cezanne liberated art from reproducing
    reality by reducing reality to its basic
    compositions
    • Cylinder, sphere, cone
    • To create illusions of depth placed cool
    colors like blue, which seem to recede, at
    rear and warm colors like red, which seem
    to advance, in front ( Mt. St. Victoire, 1902)

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