Post-Impressionism (1880-1905)
French phenomenon that included French artists like Gaugin, Cezanne,
Toulouse-Lautrec and the Dutchman van Gogh. Their canvases shone with
rainbow-bright colour patches. The Post-Impressionists were dissatisfied
with _________________. They wanted art to be more _______________,
not completely dedicated to capturing a passing moment
Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
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Always wore a top hat and dark suit with
precisely pressed trousers
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He was just as meticulous in his art
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His method was known as _____________
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He applied confetti-sized dots of pure,
_______________ colour over the whole canvas
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For Seurat, _____________ colours (the
Jatte, 1884-86
orange-red family) connoted action and
gaiety, as did lines of moving upward. ___________, cool colours
(blue-green) and descending lines evoked _______________, while
middle tones or a balance of warm and cool colours, and lateral lines
conveyed ______________ and stasis
Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande
Toulouse-Lautrec (_____-______)
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Lautrec was a self-imposed exile from high society
due to a childhood tragedy
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As a teenager, he broke both legs, which atrophied,
giving him a five foot stature with a child’s short
legs, the powerful torso of a man, and a grossly
disproportionate head
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He abandoned his love of riding and shooting for
his interest in art
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His teacher pronounced his early drawings “simply
awful”
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He was an ___________ and ____________
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Work was similar to Degas in style and content
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Drew his subjects from contemporary life: Parisian
_____________, dance halls, and _______________
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Portrayed movement and private moments through
slice-of-life glimpses with abrupt, photo graphic
cropping
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Primary interests were _____________ with doubtful
morality, _______________, acrobats, and prostitutes
Toulouse-Lautrec, At the
Moulin Rouge, 1892
Toulouse-Lautrec,
Divan Japonais
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
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Even among the ______________ he was
considered beyond the pale. Manet called
him a “farceur” (a joke). Degas thought he
was a wild man because of his provincial
accent, comical clothes, and unorthodox
painting style
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The public denounced Cezanne’s paintings
with vengeance
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To create the illusion of ________ in his
landscapes, he placed cool colours like
blue, which seem to recede, at rear and
warm colours like red, which seem to
advance, in front
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A visitor described how Cezanne set up his
still life: “Cezanne arranged the fruit,
contrasting the tones one against another,
making __________________ vibrate, the
greens against the reds, the yellows against
the blues, tilting, turning, balancing the fruit
as he wanted it to be…”
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In his last ten years, he was obsessed
1906
with the theme of __________ bathers in an
_____________ setting. Because of his
extreme slowness in execution, his shyness,
and a fear of his prudish neighbors’ suspicions, Cezanne did not work
from live models
Paul Cezanne, Mont SainteVictoire, 1902-04
Paul Cezanne, Large Bathers,
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
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For more than a decade he was
prosperous
Parisian stock broker, a middleclass father of five who took up
Sunday painting in 1873
By 1883, Gauguin had ditched his
new family for his new love- art
He paraded the boulevards with a
__________________ on his shoulder and an outlandishly dressed
Javanese girl on his arm
Became a full-time painter at the age of _________________
The public was slow to recognize his merit, and Gauguin found himself
without tobacco for his pipe, sometimes going three days without food
He transformed colours and distored shapes to convey his emotional
response to a scene
Gauguin spent his last ten years in the South Seas, where he felt free
at last. He lived in a native hut with a 13-year-old Tahitian mistress
Van Gogh (____-____)
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Brief ten year career
When van Gogh discovered
____________________ in Paris, his work
underwent a drastic change
He switched from dark to bright colours and
from social realist themes to light-drenched,
outdoor scenes
Even though van Gogh adopted the
______________ brushstroke and bright
_______________ colours of the
impressionists, his art was always original.
He threw himself into paintings with a
therapeutic frenzy, producing
______________ paintings and as many
drawings in ten years
Slices off his left ear lobe, wrapped it in a
handkerchief, and presented it to a
prostitute
Expressionism
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van Gogh, Self Portrait, 1889
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Produced “Starry Night” while he was a patient in the Saint-Remy asylum
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In van Gogh’s last __________ days, he painted ____________ canvases
Expressionism
Landmarks of this movement were violent colours and exaggerated lines
that helped contain intense _____________________ expression.
Application of formal elements is __________________, _______________,
violent, or ____________________.
Expressionists were trying to pinpoint the expression of inner experience
rather than solely realistic portrayal, seeking to depict not objective reality
but the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in
them.
Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
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_________________ painter
Inspiration from the ________________
expressionist movement
Most productive period was 1892-1908 in
Berlin
He produced ________________,
_______________, _____________, and
________________
Munch was an outsider who called his
painting his “children”
His mother and father died of comsumption when he was young,
leaving him raised by a fanatically religious father
Munch realized his psychological problems were a catalyst for his art
He specialized in portraying extreme emotions like _____________,
sexual desire, and ____________________
Although Munch often went for months without painting, once he
began to work, he painted in a frenzy
Amadeo Modigliani (1884-1920)
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Known for his paintings of reclining
nudes
Figures have long, thin necks,
sloping shoulders, tilted heads with
small mouths, long noses, and blank
slits for eyes
Although poor as a pauper, he
dressed to the hilt, with flying red
scarf and loud corduroy suit
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
The idea that art does not
represent, but reconstructs,
_______________
• A ________________ before the
term existed
• Matisse sought to eliminate
nonessentials and retain only a
subject’s most ________________
qualities
•Amadeo
Matisse lived
in trying times
Modigliani
(countless strikes, uprisings,
(1884-1920)
assassinations, and two world
wars) and yet his paintings ignored
all social or political controversy
Matisse perfectly evoked sensual nudes in line drawings with barely a
dozen strokes
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idea that ______________
Matisse believed paintings should not only
be ________________
but
does
not
represent,
but
should bring __________________ to the viewer
reconstructs,
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Matisse came late to painting, having trained
to be a lawyer
to please
his father
• A _________________ before the
In his last years, Matisse was bedridden
term existed
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Matisse perfectly evoked sensual
nudes in line drawings with barely a
dozen strokes
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Matisse believed paintings should
not only be beautiful but should
bring pleasure to the viewer