HUMAN 120, Fall, 2014
Prof. DeGrassi and Dr. Harnett
Week 13 (Thursday) Class Notes, page 1
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Announcements: The Art Term Paper is due next time.
Exam 3 returned if not already handed to you; Exam 4 is next.
See me about makeups as needed.
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DeGrassi:
More on Impressionism.
 Gustave Caillebotte, The Floor Scrapers. 1876.
http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/caillebotte_paris_to_se
a/gc_bm_0309_02.htm
 Georges Seurat, http://www.artchive.com/artchive/S/seurat.html
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
1884-86
Oil on canvas
207.5 x 308 cm
Art Institute of Chicago http://www.artchive.com/artchive/S/seurat/jatte.jpg.html
 A little fun with the same painting—a photo re-creation of A Sunday
Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldonliner/179379698/in/photostream/
An American Impressionist:
 Mary Cassatt http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cassatt/
 Cassatt as a “revolutionary”—an American woman
professional painter in Paris.
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 Paul Cézanne
More on Expressionism. Emphasis on Reactions to the World—world
wars, other circumstances.
Characteristics and More Examples
o Characteristics
 Tremendous emotion---arrgh!
 Turbulence in the world and in the mind
 Emphasis on feelings rather than representing reality as it
looks
 The psychology of color
o Examples
o Paul Gauguin
o Fauvism description (no pictures)
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/20th/fauvism.html
 Matisse was a dominant figure in the movement; other
Fauvists included Vlaminck, Derain, Marquet, and Rouault
 Matisse’s paper cutouts: http://www.henri-
HUMAN 120, Fall, 2014
Prof. DeGrassi and Dr. Harnett
Week 13 (Thursday) Class Notes, page 2
matisse.net/cut_outs.html
Elements of Modernism in Literature:
http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/2F55/modernism.php Make a
concise list of some major attributes of it.
Oscar Wilde, “The Selfish Giant” at http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/
written in 1888. Identify:
 The Giant’s garden and the children at the start of the story.
 The sign and prohibition that the Giant makes.
 The effects of the Giant’s selfishness on his garden and him.
 The boy in the corner of the garden and how the Giant changes.
 Who the boy is and how he influences the Giant by the end of the
story.
 The moral of this story:
 How is this story Modern? (note that Romanticism, for one, is not
exclusive to one time period)
Anton Chekhov, “The Lottery Ticket” (1887) at
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http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1883/1883-h/1883-h.htm#2H_4_0009
Ivan Dmitritch’s status, income, feelings about his life
Who has bought a lottery ticket
The number and series of the winning ticket
What their ticket’s number is
First reactions
Ivan’s dreams, plans, and ideas of what the money represents
“Pictures” that Ivan imagines; where Masha’s attention is at the same time
the weather outside at this time and its effects
What Masha tells Ivan to do [with the ticket] after agreeing that she should
travel too, and how Ivan responds
10. Ivan’s preferences for travel, and why
a. Ivan’s thoughts about his wife
b. Ivan’s self-image
c. What Ivan imagines a trip to be life with her
d. Thoughts about Masha’s relatives
e. Thoughts about his own relatives
f. Overall emotions felt by both Masha and Ivan
11. Why Ivan finally checks the number and series
12. What the number and series are
13. Reactions to this news
a. What Ivan’s focus is as the story ends
14. How is this story a reflection of the Expressionist perspective?
15. What makes the story distinctly Modern?
For Next Time: Complete The Art Term Paper: Your copied painting, tracings of
Elements and Principles of Design, written commentaries of each tracing, written
HUMAN 120, Fall, 2014
Prof. DeGrassi and Dr. Harnett
Week 13 (Thursday) Class Notes, page 3
analysis of biographical information and its influences on the artist’s work; written
analysis of historical information and its influences on the artist’s work. See the Art
Term Paper Assignment on the Humanities 120 Course Materials page in the
website.