14/04/2016. Post-Impressionism. Thursday, April 14, 2016 Course Outline. Key Notions. -Color sensation -Flat tint -Pointillism -Symbolism

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1 Post-Impressionism Or, Fixing Impressionism St. Lawrence, 4/14/2016 Thursday, April 14, 2016 Course Outline Post-Impressionism Cézanne Seurat Van Gogh Gauguin Key Notions -Color sensation -Flat tint -Pointillism -Symbolism 1

2 1863 Salon des Refusés 1872 Start of Impressionism 1872 Monet s Impression, Sunrise Seurat s La Grande Jatte 1888 Gauguin s Sermon 1903 Wright Brothers first flight 1907 Picasso s Demoiselles D Avignon 14/04/2016 Timeline Baroque ( ) Rococo ( ) Neoclassicism ( ) Romanticism (19th) Realism (Mid to end of 19th) Impressionism (End of 19th, start of 20th) Post-Impressionism (End of 19th, start of 20th) Cubism (start of 20th) Word-stock Stabilizing the moment Beyond impressions Time period Variety of experimental avenues Variety of techniques Portraits, genre scene, landscape, still-life 2

3 Paul Cézanne ( ) Or, Artistic Truth Self-Portrait c. 1875, Oil on canvas, cm, Musée d'orsay Post-Impressionism Color sensations to express reality Urban, industrial and rural themes Space acquires life Freedom from academic knowledge Capturing the fleeting moment Post-Impressionism More of a time period, not a unified movement Form/color has to be bound Stabilizing the fleeting moment Different perspectives, not just times Going beyond sensations Patience in painting Source: 8 La Montagne Sainte-Victoire 3

4 Ginger Jar and Fruit c. 1895, Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm, The Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania Source: 8 Seurat Van Gogh Gauguin Apples and Oranges , Oil on canvas, cm, Musée d'orsay Source: 8 Seurat Van Gogh Gauguin Large Bathers c. 1906, Oil on canvas, cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art Source: 8 Seurat Van Gogh Gauguin 4

5 Monet, Cap d'antibes, 1888, Oil on canvas, 66 x 92 cm, Courtauld Gallery, London Cézanne, La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, , 72,8 x 91,7 cm, The Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania Georges Seurat ( ) Or, Painting Vibrancy Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte , 225 x 340 cm, Art Institute, Chicago Source: 8 Cézanne Van Gogh Gauguin 5

6 The Models 1888, Oil on canvas, 39 x 49 cm, Private collection Source: 7 Cézanne Van Gogh Gauguin The Circus 1891, Oil on canvas, 180 x 148 cm, Musée d'orsay, Paris Source: 7 Cézanne Van Gogh Gauguin Monet, Quai du Louvre, Paris,1867, Oil on canvas, 62 x 87 cm, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, , 225 x 340 cm, Art Institute, Chicago 6

7 Vincent Van Gogh ( ) Or, Emotional Intensity Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear 1889, Oil on canvas, 60 x 49 cm, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London Post-Impressionism Space acquires life Freedom from academic knowledge Different perspectives, not just times Going beyond sensations Form/color has to be bound Stabilizing the fleeting moment Van Gogh Color sensations to express feelings Very quick painting (opposes Cézanne) Intense (opposes Cézanne) Form expressed by brush stokes (opposes Cézanne) Source: 8 Le père Tanguy 1887, Oil on canvas, 74 x 60 cm, D Orsay, Paris Source: 8 Cézanne Seurat Gauguin 7

8 The Night Café 1888, 70 x 89 cm, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Source: 8 Cézanne Seurat Gauguin Bedroom in Arles 1890, 57 x 74 cm, D Orsay, Paris Source: 8 Cézanne Seurat Gauguin Bedroom in Arles 1890, 57 x 74 cm, D Orsay, Paris Source: 8 Cézanne Seurat Gauguin 8

9 Wheat Field with Crows 1890, 51 x 101 cm, Musée Van Gogh, Amsterdam Source: 8 Cézanne Seurat Gauguin Monet, Bouquet of Sunflowers, 1880, Oil on canvas, 101 x 81 cm, Metropolitan Mus. of Art, New York Van Gogh, Sunflowers, January 1889 (Arles), Oil on canvas, 92 x 71 cm, Museum of Art, Philadelphia Paul Gauguin ( ) Or, Rational Symbolism 9

10 Self-Portrait 1893, Oil on canvas, cm, D Orsay Post-Impressionism Space acquires life Freedom from academic knowledge Different perspectives, not just times Going beyond sensations Form/color has to be bound Stabilizing the fleeting moment Gauguin Color sensations to express the idea No texture (opposes Impressionism) Thought must be found in painting (opposes Impressionism, but echoes Cézanne) Savage attitude (opposes Classicism) Source: 8 Cézanne Seurat Van Gogh The Vision after the Sermon 1888, Oil on Canvas, cm, National Gallery of Scotland Source: 8 Cézanne Seurat Van Gogh The Spirit of the Dead Keep Watch 1892, Oil on canvas, 92,4 x 72,4 cm, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Source: 8 Cézanne Seurat Van Gogh 10

11 Ta Matete (We Shall Not Go to Market Today) 1892, Oil on canvas, 73 x 62 cm, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Source: 8 Cézanne Seurat Van Gogh Night Café 1888, Oil on canvas, cm, Puschkin Museum, Moskow Source: 8 Cézanne Seurat Van Gogh Monet, Camille Monet on the Couch, 1871, Oil on canvas, 48 x 75 cm, Musée d'orsay, Paris Gauguin, The Spirit of the Dead Keep Watch, 92,4 x 72,4 cm, Oil on canvas, 1892, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo 11

12 Suggested reading -Gombrich, The Story of Art, p Cleaver, Art, an Introduction, p Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, vol. 5, p Kleiner, Gardner s Art through the Ages, p Bibliography and Sources 1. Adams, Exploring the Humanities 2. Cleaver, Art, an Introduction 3. Davies, Janson s Basic History of Western Art 4. Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, vol Gombrich, The Story of Art 6. Kleiner, Gardner s Art through the Ages