Modern Art From Impressionism to Expressionism

Modern Art: From Impressionism to Expressionism • • • Russ Mc. Neil Impressionism Post-impressionism Fauvism Pointillism Art Nouveau Symbolism Group of Seven Expressionism Surrealism Malaspina Great Books

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

Alexandre Cabanel (1823 -1889) The Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta

Adolphe-William Bouguereau (1825 -1905) The Knitting Girl

Claude Monet (1840 -1926) Houses of Parliament

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 -1919) Madame Charpentier and Her Children

Camille Pissarro (1830 -1903) The Chestnut Trees at Osny [note: Impressionist “martyr”]

Alfred Sisley (1839 -1899) Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne

Berthe Morisot (1841 -1895) In a Park Note: Manet Influence

Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin (1841 -1927) Sunset at Ivry

Frederic Bazille (1841 -1870) Bazille's Studio; 9 rue de la Condamine

Edgar Degas (1834 -1917) The Rehearsal

Edouard Manet (1832 -1833) Luncheon on the Grass

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.

Paul Cezanne (1839 -1906) Mont-St-Victoire (1885)

Paul Gauguin (1848 -1903) Spirit of the Dead Watching

Vincent van Gogh (1853 -1890)

Van Gogh – Night Cafe

Van Gogh – Starry Night

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 -1901) In the Salon of the Rue des Moulins

Henri Julien Felix Rousseau (1844 -1910) The Dream

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.

Henri Matisse (1869 -1954) The Joy of Life

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

Georges Seurat (1859 -1891) [neo-impressionist]

Art Nouveau is an elegant decorative art style characterized by intricately detailed patterns of curving lines.

Alphonse Mucha (1860– 1939)

Gustav Klimt (1862 -1918)

Antoni Gaudi (1852 -1926)

Symbolism Late 19 th c. movement that influenced many modern trends.

Gustave Moreau (1826 -1898)

Odilon Redon (1840 -1916) Smiling Spider

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824 -1898 )

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.

Franklin Carmichael (1890 -1945 ) North Shore, Lake Superior

A. J. Casson (1898 -1992 ) – White Pine

Lionel Fitzgerald (1890 -1956) Doc Snider's House

Edwin Holgate (1892 -1977) Canadian Destroyers, Halifax

A. Y. Jackson (1882 -1974) Houses of Ypres

Arthur Lismer (1885 -1969) Canadian Jungle

J. E. H. Mac. Donald (1873 -1932) Oaks, October Morning

F. H. Varley (1881 -1969) Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay

Frank Johnston (1888– 1949) Camp Borden (1919)

Lawren Harris (1885 -1970) Afternoon Sun, North Shore, Lake Superior, 1924

Lawren Harris – Miner’s Houses, Glace Bay

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.

Wassily Kandinsky (1866 -1944) – Couple Riding

Franz Marc (1880 -1916) – Yellow Cow

Amedeo Modigliani (1884 -1920) - Nude -- Caryatid

Edvard Munch (1863 -1944 ) Dead Mother

Gershon Iskowitz (1921 -1988 ) Sky

Kathe Kollwitz (1867 -1945 )

Paul Klee (1879 -1940)

Surrealism Fantastic visual imagery from the subconscious mind.

Giorgio de Chirico (1888 -1978) Metaphysical Interior with Factory

Yves Tanguy (1900 -1955) Indefinite Divisibility

Dorothea Tanning (1910 -) Ein klein nachtmusik

Salvador Dali (1904 -1989)