This chapter explores art of the mid to late 1800’s in Europe and the United States, including painting, architecture, photography, and sculpture. Some trends of this era include Orientalism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Art Nouveau and Chicago School architecture. We will be studying Modern Art in Europe and the Americas, 1900-1950, as our next topic. Feel free to scan the pages in that section and take some notes in order to get a head start. TERMS: Historicism (963), daguerreotype (967), camera obscura (967 and 970), avant-garde (971), en plain air (984), Japonisme (994), nocturne (1001), repoussoir (1008) CONCEPTS TO KNOW: Know how the Industrial Revolution change European society (962) Know how Charles Darwin’s theories challenged religious teachings. Be familiar with “Social Darwinism” (962) The capital of the art world in the 19th century was Paris (École de Beaux-Arts) (964) Read Art and Its Contexts: Orientalism (966) Know who Louis-Jacques Daguerre was and his role in the evolution of photography (967) Know Jacob Riis (How the Other Half Lives) was an influential American Social Realist photographer (discussion) Know what the art of Realism was actually about (971) Know why avant-garde is an apropos term for those who pushed the boundaries of conventional thinking (971) Know the social and political reasons why Realism became popular in Paris in the mid-19th century (971) Know that Millet was a member of the Barbizon School: scenes of French life, peaceful country scenes (973) Know the reasons for the advent of Modernism in European art (976) Know that “Modernism” is the collective rejection of artistic traditions of the previous 400 years (976) Know why Napoleon III organized the “Salon of the Rejected Ones” in 1863 (976) Know why Manet’s The Luncheon on the Grass was considered shocking by the Academy (976-977) Know that Nadar was an influential Parisian photographer who specialized in portraits (discussion) Know who Louis Leroy was (984) Know the effect that the Impressionists exhibits had on the French Academy’s Salon (984) Know how the style and subject of Mary Cassatt’s prints were influenced by Japanese prints (discussion) Know the artistic priorities of Rossetti and his group of London-based Pre-Raphaelite painters (998) Know the historical relationship between James Whistler (artist) and John Ruskin (art critic) (999-1001) Know why Rodin’s Burghers of Calais upset its patrons (1003) Know where Art Nouveau drew its inspiration from. Know the artistic conventions of Art Nouveau (1004-1005) Know that Cézanne viewed art as “something other than reality-not a representation of nature but a construction of nature”; this will be crucial to our understanding of modern art in the twentieth century Know the dilemma faced by late nineteenth-century architects (1009) Know that Modern architects (Richardson and Sullivan) began to break away from Historicism to pursue the “form follows function” style of architecture (1012-1015) The second half of the Nineteenth century saw vast changes in how art was conceptualized and created (962): -artists became committed political or social activists: Example(s): ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ -artists retreated into their own imaginations: Example(s): ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ -artists responded to how photography transformed vision and perception: Example(s): ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ -artists set themselves up as photographers: Example(s): ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ -artists emulated the clarity of photography in their non-photographic work: Example(s): ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ -artists explored the difference between photography’s superficial reality and a deeper, human reality: Example(s): ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ -artists explored the potential of photography’s visually unbalanced compositions: Example(s): ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ -artists ventured into the realm of abstraction: Example(s): ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ TITLE ARTIST Europe and the United States in the Nineteenth Century Line Art Eiffel Tower, Paris Gustave Eiffel REMEMBER: Tower of Babel, Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-Sur-Gartempe, Poitou, France YEAR 1887-1889 1160-1115 Charles Darwin photograph École des Beaux(boze)-Arts, Paris (School of Fine Arts) modern photograph Avenue de La Grande Armee, Haussmann modern photograph Opera, Paris (aerial photograph) Charles Garnier 1861-1874 Opera, Paris (façade) Charles Garnier 1861-1874 Opera, Paris (interior) Charles Garnier 1861-1874 The Birth of Venus* Cabanel 1864 The Fallen Angel Cabanel 1868 The Dance Carpeaux 1867-1868 Snake Charmer** Gérôme 1870 Café House, Cairo Gérôme 1870s The Artist’s Studio* Daguerre 1837 Boulevard du Temple, Paris Daguerre Spring 1838 Daguerreotype of Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1878 1845 Daguerreotype View of Cincinnati Fontayne and William Porter Sept. 1848 Daguerreotype View of Cincinnati, Plate 4: Lawrence Street Fontayne and William Porter Sept. 1848 The Open Door* Henry Fox Talbot 1843 House with Staircase Baldus 1858 Home of the Rebel Sharpshooter: Battle Field at Gettysburg Timothy O’ Sullivan 1863 Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Timothy O’Sullivan July 1863 Jacob Riis photograph 1849-1914 Tenement Interior in Poverty Gap Jacob Riis 1889 Lodgers in a Bayard Street Tenement – ‘Five Cents a Spot’ Jacob Riis 1889 Classroom, New York* Jacob Riis before 1914 Portrait of Cameron Carlyle Julia Margaret Cameron 1867 Illustration of a Camera Obscura possibly Italian 17th century Stone Breakers** Gustave Courbet 1849 A Burial at Ornans* Gustave Courbet 1849 The Gleaners* Jean-François Millet 1857 Book cover for Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives Woman Baking Bread Jean-François Millet 1854 Angelus Jean-François Millet 1857 Heart of the Andes Frederic Church 1859 Niagara Frederic Church 1857 Twilight in the Wilderness Frederic Church 1860 Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California Albert Bierstadt 1865 First Leaves, Near Mantes* Corot 1855 The Horse Fair Rosa Bonheur 1853-1855 Plowing in the Nivernais Rosa Bonheur 1849 Portrait of Rosa Bonheur Edouard-Louis Dubufe 1857 Rosa Bonheur photograph 1880 Portrait of Charles Baudelaire Nadar 1863 Portrait of Eugene Delacroix Nadar 1855 Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art* Daumier 1862 The Luncheon on the Grass* Édouard Manet 1863 COMPARE: The Judgment of Paris Raimondi (after Raphael) 1502 REMEMBER: The Pastoral Concert Titian 1510 COMPARE: The Birth of Venus with The Luncheon on the Grass Olympia* Édouard Manet 1863 Titian 1538 Boating Édouard Manet 1874 The Fifer Édouard Manet 1866 Le Chemin de fer (The Railway) Édouard Manet 1873 A Bar at the Foiles-Bergére Édouard Manet 1881-1882 Bargehaulers on the Volga Ilya Repin 1870-1873 The Gross Clinic** Thomas Eakins 1875 The Agnew Clinic Thomas Eakins 1889 The Biglin Brothers Racing Thomas Eakins 1873 The Swimming Hole Thomas Eakins 1883 The Life Line Winslow Homer 1884 The Herring Net Winslow Homer 1885 Fishing Boats at Key West Winslow Homer 1903 Forever Free Edmonia Lewis 1867 The Banjo Lesson Henry Ossawa Tanner 1893 REMEMBER: “Venus” of Urbino The Thankful Poor Henry Ossawa Tanner 1894 The Annunciation Henry Ossawa Tanner 1896 The Barges Charles-François Daubigny 1865 On the Bank of The Seine, Bennecourt Claude Monet 1868 Impression: Sunrise* Claude Monet 1873 Thames Below Westminster Claude Monet 1871 Woman with Parasol, Madame Monet and Her Son Claude Monet 1875 La Gare Saint-Lazare Claude Monet 1877 Rouen Cathedral: The Portal Claude Monet 1894 Water Lilies and Clouds Claude Monet 1903 Claude Monet photograph Wooded Landscape at L’Hermitage, Pontoise Pissarro 1878 Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning Pissarro 1897 Moulin de la Galette* Renoir 1876 Luncheon on the Boating Party Renoir 1881 The Bathers* Renoir 1887 Mother and Child Mary Cassatt 1890 Woman in a Loge Mary Cassatt 1879 Maternal Caress Mary Cassatt 1891 COMPARE: Suzuki Harunobu Edo Period The Boating Party* Mary Cassatt 1893-1894 The Child’s Bath Mary Cassatt 1893 Breakfast in Bed Mary Cassatt 1897 Summer’s Day* * Berthe Morisot 1879 COMPARE: Geisha as Daruma Crossing the Sea Manet’s Boating party with Morisot’s Summer’s Day Woman at her Toilette Berthe Morisot 1875 The Rehearsal on Stage* Edgar Degas 1874 The Dance Class Edgar Degas 1874 Dancer Sketch Edgar Degas Woman Combing Her Hair Edgar Degas 1884-1886 Race Horses Edgar Degas 1888 Portrait of Mary Cassatt Edgar Degas 1880-1884 Glass of Absinthe Edgar Degas 1876 Paris Street, Rainy Day* Caillebotte 1877 The Floor Scrapers Caillebotte 1876 La Grande Jatte** Seurat 1886 The Bathers Seurat 1884 Plum Orchard, Kameido Hiroshige 1857 Japonaiserie: Flowering Plum Tree Vincent van Gogh 1887 The Starry Night Vincent van Gogh 1889 Wheatfield with Cypress Vincent van Gogh 1889 The Potato Eaters Vincent van Gogh 1885 Terrace Café at Night Vincent van Gogh 1888 Nuit étoilée sur le Rhône (Starry Night Over the Rhone) Vincent van Gogh 1888 Pietà (after Delacroix) Vincent van Gogh 1889 Bedroom at Arles* Vincent van Gogh 1889 Self-Portait Vincent van Gogh 1887 Self-Portait Vincent van Gogh 1888 Crows over Cornfield Vincent van Gogh 1890 Manao Tupapau (Spirit of the Dead Watching) Gauguin 1892 Mahana No Atua (Day of the God) Gauguin 1894 La Pia* Rossetti 1868-1869 Single Chair from the Sussex Range Philip Webb 1865 Nocturne in Black and Gold, The Falling Rocket* James Whistler 1875 The Peacock Room James Whistler 1876-1877 Arrangement in Grey & Black James Whistler 1871 The Apparition** Gustave Moreau 1876 Oedipus & the Sphinx Gustave Moreau 1864 The Scream Edvard Munch 1893 A fjord modern photograph The Kiss Edvard Munch 1895 Self-Portrait Edvard Munch 1895 Madonna Edvard Munch 1894-1895 Love and Pain (Vampire) Edvard Munch 1894 Edvard Munch photograph The Intrigue James Ensor 1890 The Burghers of Calais* Auguste Rodin 1884-1889 The Thinker Auguste Rodin 1889 Gates of Hell Auguste Rodin 1880 The Kiss Auguste Rodin 1889 Auguste Rodin, 1914 photograph The Waltz Camille Claudel 1892-1905 Stairway, Tassel House, Brussels * Victor Horta 1892-1893 Tropon Henry van de Velde 1898 Casa Batllò** Antonio Gaudí 1907 Serpentine Bench, Guell Park, Barcelona Antonio Gaudí 1900-1914 Guell Park, Barcelona Antonio Gaudí 1900-1914 Desk Hector Guimard 1899 Paris Metro entrance Hector Guimard Jane Avril* Toulouse-Lautrec Moulin Rouge, Montmartre modern photograph At the Moulin Rouge Toulouse-Lautrec 1895 La Goulue Toulouse-Lautrec 1891 May Milton Toulouse-Lautrec 1895 The Kiss Gustav Klimt 1907-1908 Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer Gustav Klimt 1907 Mont Sainte-Victoire* Cézanne 1885-1887 Still Life with Basket of Apples Cézanne 1890-1894 The Large Bathers Cézanne 1906 The Crystal Palace, London Joseph Paxton 1850-1851 Reading Room, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris Henri Labrouste 1862-1868 Court of Honor, World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893 1893 Frederick Law Olmsted’s design for the Japanese Pavilion modern photograph Marshall Field Wholesale Store, Chicago * Richardson 1885-1887 REMEMBER: Michelozzo di Bartolomeo 1446 Wainwright Building** Louis Sullivan 1891 Map of Central Park, New York City Olmsted and Vaux 1873 Façade of Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence *Possibly a slide-identification question. Know the title and artist. **Know the title, artist and YEAR.